Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies

Overview:

  • Title: Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
  • Author: Moss Roberts
  • Year: 2014
  • Publisher: The Folio Society
  • Price: $74.95
  • Pages: xxv+256
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Li Chi Slays the Serpent
  • Notes: Stories selected and translated by Moss Roberts.
    94 stories from 25 centuries of Chinese literature.
    Interior art includes a frontispiece, 7 color illustrations and 6 black & white tailpieces (each used twice).
    No dust jacket. Metallic printed endpapers.
    "An Unofficial History of the Confucian Academy" is the first chapter of a novel titled "The Scholars" written in the second quarter of the 18th century.