Author: WU CH'ENG-EN.
Title: Monkey. (Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley).
Description: London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1943. 3rd impression. "Monkey is unique in its combination of beauty with absurdity, of profundity with nonsense.Folk-lore, allegory, religion, history, anti-bureaucratic satire and pure poetry - such are the singularly diverse elements out of which the book is compounded." Pp.305, illustrated title page, rear endpaper absent. Orange cloth, rubbed with uneven sunning to spine and board edges. Scarce. Good.

Keywords: Wu Ch'Eng-en Arthur Waley Translated Chinese Folklore Allegory Religion History Anti-Bureaucratic Satire Poetry Fiction 48901 Fiction


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