Monkey : Folk Novel of China

by Wu, Ch'Eng-En (Waley, Arthur Transl.)

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 1988 Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the rougish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies. This translation, by the distinguished scholar Arthur Waley, is the first accurate English version; it makes available to the Western reader a faithful reproduction of the spirit and meaning of the original. . Trade Paperback. New/New.