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Amazing Tales: Second Series (A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Classic)
by Ling Mengchu
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Foreign Language Press (2005-01)
ISBN: 7119033522
EAN: 9787119033525
Paperback: 430 pages
SKU: 080207015
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: This copy states First Edition 2005, which is in good condition. Front end paper has an address. Back end paper has a chinese red stamp. Otherwise, No visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears to text. Tight spine. Bottom of Front Soft cover has a small crease. Minimum/moderate shelf/edge wear. Valuable rare copy worth having at an affordable price. (L8-10)
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Product Description
A Perennial Bestseller on Townsfolk Life As Amazing Tales-First Series by Ling Mengchu (l580-l644) made a hit, the publisher urged him to write a sequel to it. This gave rise to Amazing Tales-Second Series, which has become another bestseller for the last few centuries. Our English version of the Second Series features 19 stories carefully chosen from the original 40. In fascinating plots and a highly expressive colloquial language, they are mostly about women's fate, their miserable existence in a polygamous society, their daring struggle for genuine love, and their implications in legal cases. All these shed precious light on the social mosaic of seventeenth-century China.
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