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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780241259184
eBay Product ID (ePID)
227364777
Product Key Features
Book Title
Monkey
Author
Wu Ch'eng-En
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
181mm
Item Width
111mm
Item Weight
230g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Wu Ch'eng-En
Series Title
Pocket Penguins
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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