Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
- Authors
- Songling, Pu
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Tags
- classics , fantasy
- ISBN
- 9780140447408
- Date
- 1740-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 6.77 MB
- Lang
- en
Eminent Chinese scholar John Minford's superb translation captures the consummate skill and understated humor of Pu Songling's classic *Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio* (also known as *Strange Tales from Liaozhai*). With elegant prose, witty wordplay, and subtle charm, the 104 stories (selected out of over 400 from the original work) in this collection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. In his tales of shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings, and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains.
* Includes an introduction, suggestions for further reading, glossary, notes, and illustrations