Monkey
Subtitle: Folk Novel of China
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: July 1958
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780613710213
First sentence: There was a rock that since the creation of the world had been worked upon by the pure essences of Heaven and the fine savours of Earth, the vigour of sunshine and the grace of moonlight, till at last it become magically pregnant and one day split open, giving birth to a stone egg, about as big as a playing ball.