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Condition: Very Good. Abridged. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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paperback. Condition: Good. Abridged. Corners are bent. Used - Good.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Abridged. Pages toned. 1986 Trade Paperback. iv, [4], 499 pp. An abridgment based on the 1978 three-volume unabridged version from Foreign Languages Press. "Dream of the Red Chamber, also known as A Dream of Red Mansions, The Story of the Stone, or Chronicles of the Stone is one of the masterpieces of Chinese fiction. It was composed sometime in the middle of the 18th century during the Qing Dynasty. Its authorship is attributed to Cao Xue(qin (Cao Zhan). The novel is usually grouped with three other pre-modern Chinese works of fiction, collectively known as the Four Great Classical Novels. Of these, Dream of the Red Chamber is often taken to be the zenith of Chinese classical fiction. The novel has been translated into 20 different languages either in abridged version, such as German, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, or in complete version, such as Japanese, Korean, English, French, Spanish and Russian. There are two craters on asteroid 433 Eros named after the novel's fictional characters, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. The last 40 chapters of this 120-chapter novel are of questionable authenticity. Cao Xueqin wrote the first 80 chapters, but died before the novel saw publication. It is believed that the novel is semi-autobiographical, mirroring the fortunes of Cao Xueqin's own family. It was intended to be a memorial to the women Cao knew in his youth: friends, relatives, and servants, as the author details in the first chapter. The novel itself is a detailed, episodic record of the lives of the extended Jia Clan, made up of two branches, the Ning-guo and Rong-guo Houses, which occupies two large adjacent family compounds in the Qing capital, Beijing. Their ancestors were made Dukes, and at the novel's start the two houses were still one of the most illustrious families in the capital. Originally extremely wealthy and influential, with a female member made an Imperial Concubine, the Clan eventually fell into disfavour with the Emperor, and had their mansions raided and confiscated. The novel is a charting of the Jias' fall from the height of their prestige, centering around some 30 main characters and over 400 minor ones. The story is prefaced with supernatural Taoist and Buddhist overtones. A sentient Stone, abandoned by the Goddess Nuwa when she mended the heavens, enters the mortal realm after begging a Taoist priest and Buddhist monk to bring it to see the world. The main character, Jia Baoyu, is the adolescent heir of the family, apparently the reincarnation of the Stone (the most reliable Jiaxu manuscript however has the Stone and Jia Baoyu as two separate, though related, entities). In that previous life he had a relationship with a flower, who is incarnated now as Baoyu's sickly cousin, the emotional Lin Daiyu. However, he is predestined in this life, despite his love for Daiyu, to marry another cousin, Xue Baochai. The novel follows this love triangle against the backdrop of the family's declining fortunes. The novel is remarkable not only in its huge cast of characters over 400 in all, most of whom are female and its psychological scope, but also in its precise and detailed observations of the life and social structures of 18th-century China.The novel, written in Vernacular Chinese and not Classical Chinese, is one of works which establishes the legitimacy of the vernacular idiom. Its author is well versed in Classical Chinese with tracts written in erudite semi-wenyan and Chinese poetry. The novel's conversations are written in a vivid Beijing Mandarin dialect which was to become the basis of modern spoken Chinese, with influences from Nanjing Mandarin (where Cao's family lived in the early 1700s). The novel contains nearly 30 characters which could be considered major, and hundreds of minor ones. Cao centers the novel on Jia Baoyu, the male protagonist, and the female relations around him, at one point intending to call the book The Twelfth Beauties of Jinling. "Also known as Hong Lou Meng, this is arguably China's greatest literary.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Softcover book, light wear to cover and book edges.

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Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Volume 2. Slipcase Good. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Tai Tung-Pang (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall in black boards w/blue cloth spine, red medallions w/gold titles and dec, topstain blue, ribbon bookmark bound-in. About Fine book w/shelfwear, else Fine and unmarked; in Fine DJ, now in clear protective cover. 701pp., illustrated in color paintings by Tai Tung-Pang; Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys Yang (trans.). Volume II only, no slipcase. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; 599 clean, unmarked pages. Tai Tun-Pang (illustrator).

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Printing of the 1st Unwin English-language abridged Edition Thus. Translation and preface by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang. Book is straight, square, uniformly and tightly bound (appearing never read, no spine or cover creasing), free of any PO markings and blemishes, and lightly / uniformly age toned. Cover is clean, with bright, crisp artwork and lettering, straight headcap and tail, and crease to corner of rear panel. (Please see Seller images). ISBN 004820028X. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, prides itself in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping. Additional charge may apply IF SHIPPED OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL US; CONTACT SHIROBOOKS PRIOR TO ORDERING or for more information, details or photos. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 599 pages.

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hardcover. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

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Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First English language Edition, 2nd printing; dj w/sticker mark, in mylar; black c w/lite wear at extremities; decorative end papers, red satin marker; 599 clean, unmarked pages. Tai Tun-Pang (illustrator).