Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 6The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the sixth of 6 volumes. |
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... weird and anomalous narratives during his lifetime to the same “men from all four corners of China who share my enthusiasm for the unusual” (1:2), he risked compromising his shielded position as “the collector of these strange tales” by ...
... strange tales.” Notes 1 See the discussions of this point in the preceding volumes (1:xii-xiii; 2:xii-xiii; 3:xvi). 2 Guan Yu, the Three Kingdoms hero who was deified, after his death, as Guandi or Guangong ... Strange Tales from Liaozhai.
... ,” yet she performs what she considers to be her duty. Jinse eventually reveals to the long-suffering Wang that she's an exiled immortal, and her elder sister, Yaotai, “has come from far away xxviii Strange Tales from Liaozhai.
... strange, he went out to take a peek at what was going on and saw market vendors buying flowers, loading their carts to carry them away, bustling past each other as they filled the road. The flowers were ... Strange Tales from Liaozhai 2061.
... unusual nature taking place. The collector of these strange tales remarks, “Like the man of green hills and white clouds, Tao also drank himself to death, and though the world may feel sorry for him, he might not have seen it as such a ...