A Dream of Red Mansions (Traditional Chinese Edition) - Treasured Four Great Classical Novels Handed Down from Ancient China: Also Known as The Story of the Stone or Hong Lou Meng, an Encyclopaedia of Chinese Feudal Society

by Cao Xueqin, Gao E

Overview

A Dream of Red Mansions, also known as The Story of the Stone, Hong Lou Meng, is a couplet novel composed by the Qing Dynasty writer Cao Xueqin and is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Taking the ups and downs of four leading aristocratic families: Jia, Shi, Wang, Xue as its background, Cao created a tragic love triangle story among Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, revealed the crisis of feudalism. The novel has a pervasive influence and worldwide reputation at home and abroad. Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1763), whose given name was Zhan and courtesy name was Mengruan, was one of China's greatest novelists and was born to a Han Chinese clan but lived in poverty with the fall of his family. Cao devoted his life to writing A Dream of Red Mansions. But he left the work unfinished. The last 40 chapters of the book was usually considered to be completed by Gao E. This carefully crafted ebook is a Traditional Chinese edition with complete 120 chapters. We also separately provide the same title in a Simplified Chinese edition and a Simplified-Traditional Chinese comparison edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788026873358
Publisher:	Traditional Chinese (TC)
Publication date:	02/23/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1291
File size:	2 MB
Language:	Chinese

About the Author

曹雪芹（約1715—約1763年），名霑，字夢阮，號雪芹、芹圃、芹溪，清滿洲正白旗人。曹雪芹一生跌宕起伏，「生於繁華，終於淪落」，將畢生心血傾注於《紅樓夢》創作，是中國最偉大的文學家之一。《紅樓夢》後四十回作者尚有爭議，一般認爲是高鶚所續。