Dream of the Red Chamber Book I
Author: first_name:  Xueqin
last_name: Cao 曹雪芹
Language: English
Year: 1891

<em>The Dream of the Red Chamber</em> (also known as <em>The Story of the Stone</em>) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the greatest of them all. Almost 40 main characters and some 500 minor characters tell the fortunes of the Chia family; the book details mainly the life of Chia Pao-yü, the heir apparent, who is described as very intelligent, but also as carefree and self-indulging. The already wealthy Chia family rises to new heights when Pao-yü's elder sister