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An unconventional, versatile man, he came from an eminent and wealthy family which suffered a reversal of fortune in 1728 after the death of the kangxi emperor and a power struggle between his sons. His given name was cao zhan and his courtesy name is mengruan literally dream about ruan or dream of ruan. The first three, translated by david hawkes, are the original 80 chapter work which circulated in various partial manuscripts, possibly before as well as after cao xueqin s death in 1764. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the story of the stone. Tsao hsuehchin, 1715 or 1724 1763 or 1764 was a qing dynasty chinese writer, best known as the author of dream of the red chamber, one of the four great classical novels of chinese literature. Download one of the free kindle apps to start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, and computer. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Click download or read online button to the story of the stone cao xueqin pdf book pdf for free now. The volume retains some of the comedy, beauty, and elegant circumstances of the prior two, but theres also a growing frequency of conflict, pettiness, and. The dream of the red chamber is one of the four great classical novels of chinese literature. Pdf the dream of the red chamber book by cao xueqin free. The art of war by sun tzu, tao te ching by lao tzu, the analects by confucius, dream of the red chamber by xueqin cao. Cheng weiyuan and gao e claimed to have access to cao s papers, and published what is now known as the chenggao version in 1791. Filled with classical allusions, multilayered wordplay, and delightful.
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Most of what we know about cao was passed down from his contemporaries and friends. Hung lou meng, or, the dream of the red chamber, a chinese. I spend a lot of time wandering through bookstores. Name of writer, number pages in ebook and size are given in our post. The warning voice seattle public library overdrive. The story of the stone by cao xueqin eleven and a half. As a developing eighteenth century scholar, i was doubly attracted to it. The golden days volume i ebook written by cao xueqin.
Divided into five volumes, of which the warning voice is the third, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious jia family a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the authors own. Kindle ebooks can be read on any device with the free kindle app. The story of the stone also know as the dream of the red chamber. The story of the stone is divided into five volumes in this translation for penguin classics.
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Divided into five volumes, of which the crabflower club is the second, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious jia family. Cao xueqin ebooks epub and pdf downloads ebookmall. Aug 29, 20 the story of the stone by cao xueqin is another instance for me of me and my big mouth, as bugs bunny frequently said the latter phrase, not the entire sentence. A dream of red mansion, complete and unexpurgated cao xueqin. The first part of the story, the golden days, begins the tale of baoyu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to confucian studies, and his two cousins. Divided into five volumes, the story of the stone charts the glory and decline of the illustrious jia family. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Cao xueqin 1715 or 17241764 was a chinese writer during the qing dynasty. The whole book has 120 chapters, only 80 of which were written by cao xueqin before his death in 1764.
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