A Dream of Red Mansions - 3 Vol. Set

Häftad bok. FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS. 1978.

Nyskick. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1978 - 1980. Tai Tun-Pang. First Editions Text in English. Decorative cloth. Three Volume SET, thick 8vos, black cloth with red labels & elaborate gilt Chinese "tile" decorations depicting palm trees over a flower with white Chinese calligraphed title on front covers; translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang; illustrated with approximately 50 full-color glossy plates and glorious dust jacket by Tai Tun-Pang; archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jackets (unclipped); aqua & gold-flecked endpapers; thin red-ribbon page markers for each volume; publisher's blue topstains; Vol. I: xiv + 599;Vol. II: iv + 701 pp; Vol. III: iv + 586 pp & [2] Acknowledgement. Character tables laid in. Weight: 6 lbs 2 oz. Very Fine / Very Fine.

This is the first English translation of the complete text of this classical 18th century Chinese novel. Translated by Yang Hsien-yi and his wife Gladys Young.

Text reprints authoritative editions--with minor corrections--of the 80 chapters by Tsao Hsueh-Chin, and the 40 additional ones written by Kao Ngo to supplement those lost. There are 40 chapters per volume.

Each volume is in pristine condition--virtually As New--with beautiful and colorful dust jackets (unclipped) each volume protected by a tan decorative cardboard slipcase with brown backstrip titles and embossed title calligraphed on one side.

A Dream of Red Mansions" (better known as "The Dream of the Red Chamber"), is the great classical Chinese novel written in the mid-18th century during the Ching Dynasty. This masterpiece is an erotic tale of love, sex and passion which follows the decline of several related families within a political-historical context.