**A Chinese *Lord of the Rings* and one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now in a thrilling new one-volume translation A Penguin Classics Hardcover** A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Sun Wukong
Monkey King: Journey to the West: the Adventure
โ Scribed by Wu Cheng'en; Julia Lovell; Julia Lovell; Julia Lovell; Julia Lovell; Gene Luen Yang
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 458 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0143107186
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โฆ Synopsis
A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the great fantasy novels of all time--a story that Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--featuring the world's most popular superhero, a shape-shifting monkey whose time-traveling adventures, kung-fu prowess, and mischievous antics have amazed, amused, and entertained in countless TV, film, comic-book, and video-game adaptations, now in a thrilling new one-volume translation
A Penguin Classics Hardcover
One of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Monkey King (or Journey to the West) was written anonymously in 1580 during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures in the 7th century AD, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu Monkey King called Sun Wukong, one of the most memorable reprobates of world literature; a rice-loving...
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