A Dream of Red Mansions [Complete] by Xueqin Cao

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A Dream of Red Mansions [Complete]

by Xueqin Cao

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Either this really is the most boring literary classic I have ever read, or the translation does not do it justice. (

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antiquary | Nov 11, 2007 |

A truly outstanding novel with richness of thought and design at every scale. The juxtaposition of mundane power/money grabbing and supernatural is unbelievably original, amazingly well executed and deeply moving. (

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This is the complete work variously known as A Dream of Red Mansions , The Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xueqin (also known as Tsao Hsueh-chin) and Kao Ngo (also known as Kao Hgo, or Gao E). Please distinguish it from any abridged versions, and from any parts published seperately. Thank you.

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For more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and a portrait of one of the world's great civilizations. Chi-chen Wang's translation is skillful, accurate and fascinating.

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