Wailing Ghosts
Pu Songling author John Minford translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:26th Feb '15
£3.00
Available for immediate dispatch.
These delightful miniature tales of macabre hauntings, monsters and magic tricks are Classical China's greatest stories.
Includes Chinese stories, such as 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast.'
'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'
Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Pu Songling (1640-1715). Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is available in Penguin Classics.
ISBN: 9780141398167
Dimensions: 160mm x 110mm x 5mm
Weight: 53g
64 pages