Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-En

Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-En

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'ang-an 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.

Very little is known about Wu Ch-eng-en (c. 1505-80). He was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty, and is considered by many to be the author of Journey to the West (Monkey King), one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

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ISBN 13	9780140441116
ISBN 10	0140441115
Title	Monkey
Author	Wu Ch'eng-En
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1973-03-29
Number of pages	352
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.