Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio by Pu Songling
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In English. 446 pages.
Introduction: Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio is a famous collection of about 500 short stories by Pu Songling (1640-1715), a writer of the Qing Dynasty. Fifty-one stories are selected for this English edition.
The stories cover a wide range of subjects, such as werefoxes and fish spirits and ghosts and monsters that are personified. Like human beings, they have feelings of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, love and hatred as well as happiness and discontent. These mystical stories reflect the social life of the time in which they were written.
ISBN: 7-11900977-X or 711900977X or 9787119009773
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