Monkey
By: Wu Chʻêng-ên ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley.
Contributors: Waley, Arthur.
Series: An Evergreen book ;; E-112
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Xuanzang, ca. 596-664 -- Fiction; China -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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: Translation of: Xi you ji.
"Folk novel of China"--Cover.