Monkey (Penguin Classics)

Ch'eng-en, Wu

ISBN 10: 0140441115 / ISBN 13: 9780140441116

Published by Penguin Classics, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Monkey (Penguin Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140441115
• ISBN 13: 9780140441116
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 220 grams

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Synopsis

Monkey depicts the adventures of Prince Tripitaka, a young Buddhist priest on a dangerous pilgrimage to India to retrieve sacred scriptures accompanied by his three unruly disciples: the greedy pig creature Pipsy, the river monster Sandy and Monkey. Hatched from a stone egg and given the secrets of heaven and earth, the irrepressible trickster Monkey can ride on the clouds, become invisible and transform into other shapes skills that prove very useful when the four travellers come up against the dragons, bandits, demons and evil wizards that threaten to prevent them in their quest. Wu Ch'eng-en wrote Monkey in the mid-sixteenth century, adding his own distinctive style to an ancient Chinese legend, and in so doing created a dazzling combination of nonsense with profundity, slapstick comedy with spiritual wisdom.

From the Back Cover

Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.