A Dream of Red Mansions

ISBN: 7119016431

Author: Tsao Hsueh-Chin

Condition: New

A Dream of Red Mansions is Chinas greatest full-length classical novel. It is a tragic love story set against the background of the decline of an aristocratic family. With this as its central theme, the novel unfolds a vast and moving panorama of social history. It also parades a memorable and dazzling cast of characters. The wide-raging and meticulous structure of A Dream of Red Mansions, together with its literary merit in the form of exquisite language, make it universally recognized as the epitome of the art of the classical novel in China.A Dream of Red Mansions was written in the mid-18th century and was ten years in the making. The present translation, by Chinas leading literary translation team of Yang Xianyi and his wife Gladys Yang, is the version most complete and most faithful to the original.