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Monkey.

Author: Cheng'en Wu
Publisher: New York, Grove Press [1958, ©1943]
Series: An Evergreen book, E-112
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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 roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.
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Genre/Form: Biographical fiction
Biographical fiction, Chinese
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Wu, Cheng'en, ca. 1500-ca. 1582.
Monkey.
New York, Grove Press [1958, c1943]
(OCoLC)579791169
Online version:
Wu, Cheng'en, ca. 1500-ca. 1582.
Monkey.
New York, Grove Press [1958, c1943]
(OCoLC)632145000
Named Person: Xuanzang
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Cheng'en Wu
OCLC Number: 178012
Notes: Translation of Xi you ji.
Description: 306 p. 21 cm.
Series Title: An Evergreen book, E-112
Other Titles: Xi you ji.
Responsibility: Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley.

Abstract:

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 roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.

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