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The perfect lady by mistake and other stories
- Title
- The perfect lady by mistake and other stories / by Feng Menglong (1574-1646) ; translated with an introd. by William Dolby.
- Author
- Feng, Menglong, 1574-1646.
- Publication
- London : P. Elek, 1976.
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Details
- Description
- 183 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Chinese fiction > Translations into English
- Note
- Of the six stories in this vol., The perfect lady by mistake, and three other stories, are translated from the collection entitled Hsing shih heng yen; the Li Bai is from Ching shih tʻung yen, and Yang Jiao is from Yü shih ming yen. All three collections, commonly called "san yen," were edited and amplified by Feng Meng-lung.
- Contents
- The perfect lady by mistake.--Li Bai (Li Po), God in Exile, drunken drafts his "Letter to daunt the Barbarians."--A joke over fifteen strings of cash brings uncanny disaster.--Two magistrates vie to marry an orphaned girl.--Yang Jiao throws away his life in fulfilment of a friendship.--On big tree slope a faithful tiger acts best man.
- Call Number
- *OVK 78-1127
- ISBN
- 0236400029
- LCCN
- 76368198
- OCLC
- 2402119
- NYPG784181148-B
- Author
- Feng, Menglong, 1574-1646.
- Title
- The perfect lady by mistake and other stories / by Feng Menglong (1574-1646) ; translated with an introd. by William Dolby.
- Imprint
- London : P. Elek, 1976.
- Research Call Number
- *OVK 78-1127