The Story of the Stone (Volume V): The Dreamer Wakes (The Story of the Stone, 5, Band 5) - Softcover

Buch 5 von 5: Story of the Stone

Xueqin, Cao

 
9780140443721: The Story of the Stone (Volume V): The Dreamer Wakes (The Story of the Stone, 5, Band 5)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 014044372X ISBN 13: 9780140443721
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber, is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin's magnificent saga, The Dreamer Awakes, was carefully edited and completed by Gao E some decades later. It continues the story of the changing fortunes of the Jia dynasty, focussing on Bao-yu, now married to Bao-chai, after the tragic death of his beloved Dai-yu. Against such worldly elements as death, financial ruin, marriage, decadence and corruption, his karmic journey unfolds. Like a sleepwalker through life, Bao-yu is finally awakened by a vision, which reveals to him that life itself is merely a dream, 'as moonlight mirrored in the water'.

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Cao Xueqin (?1715-63) was born into a family which for three generations held the office of Commissioner of Imperial Textiles in Nanking, a family so wealthy they were able to entertain the Emperor four times. However, calamity overtook them and their property was consfiscated. Cao Xueqin was living in poverty when he wrote his famous novel The Story of the Stone.

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Divided into five volumes, of which The Dreamer Wakes is the fifth, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with the fortunes of Cao Xuequin's own family).

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1986
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
014044372X
ISBN 13 
9780140443721
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
5
Anzahl der Seiten
384
Herausgeber
Gao E Gao
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