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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... there's no guarantee that it will withstand the tests of emotional subjectivity as “Scholar Ji” (ji sheng) suggests when the title character's desire for two women, Zheng Guixiu and Zhang Wuke, almost destroys him and the two young ...
... there at the site. Just as he was about to go to sleep that night, he suddenly noticed that the window shade was halfway open so the moonlight was shining in as bright as daytime. In the distance, standing on a short wall, there was a ...
... there was an abandoned vegetable garden, with a tiny shack that had only three or four rafters, which Tao found ideal, and said that they'd move in there. In the morning he went to the northern courtyard, where he tended to Ma's ...
... there were adjoined pavilions and halls, and the residences of the two families' were joined as one, without any ... there's really not a breath of manliness left in me. People everywhere else wish for wealth, while I just wish I was ...
... there; when he bent to find out what it was, he discovered moldy straw in a hole. After digging it out, he uncovered an ancient storehouse of millet, now so decayed and rotten that it had long since turned to compost. Even though it was ...