Monkey
By: Wu Chʻeng-en ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley
Contributors: Waley, Arthur; Wu, Cheng'en, approximately 1500-approximately 1582
Edition: 1st Evergreen ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1958
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; chi
Translated from: chi
Number of pages: 306
Copyright date: 1958
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Xi you ji
Description: Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.
Notes: Selections from Xi you ji, a novel sometimes attributed to Wu ChengEn.