page_title: The Bookworm (short story)
hierarchical_section_title: The Bookworm (short story)
caption_attribution_description: English: 19th-century illustration of a scene in "The Bookworm", a short story by Pu Songling in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.
context_page_description: "The Bookworm" is a short story by Pu Songling first published in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. The story revolves around an innocent scholar Lang Yuzhu and his romantic encounter with a celestial being hidden in his books. An English translation of the story by Sidney L. Sondergard was released in 2014.
context_section_description: "The Bookworm" (simplified Chinese: 书痴; traditional Chinese: 書癡; pinyin: Shū Chī) is a short story by Pu Songling first published in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1740). The story revolves around an innocent scholar Lang Yuzhu and his romantic encounter with a celestial being hidden in his books. An English translation of the story by Sidney L. Sondergard was released in 2014.
caption: 19th-century illustration from Xiangzhu liaozhai zhiyi tuyong (Liaozhai Zhiyi with commentary and illustrations; 1886)
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