Hung Lou Meng, Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber. Book I by Henry Bencraft Joly, Cáo Xuěqín

Hung Lou Meng, Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber. Book I

A Dream of Red Mansions #1

Henry Bencraft Joly, Cáo Xuěqín

580 pages first pub 1791 (editions)

fiction classics historical emotional slow-paced

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"A Dream of Red Mansions" (Hung Lou Meng, sometimes translated as "The Dream of the Red Chamber"), the great classical Chinese novel written in the mid-eighteenth century during the reign of Emperor Chien-lung of the Ching Dynasty, has been widely...

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