Ideal and Actual in The Story of the Stone

Dore J. Levy

Paper, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11407-3
$27.00 / £16.00

May, 1999
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11406-6
$83.50 / £49.00

"Though intended as an introduction for first-time readers of the masterpiece, Levy's book also offers some insights of use to specialists. A readable contribution to English studies of Honglou meng." — Y. Wu, Choice

"Students of Chinese and comparative literature, travelers looking for a glimpse of modern China's past, and other first-time sojourners in this unfamiliar fictional world need this kind of broad-based, interdisciplinary reader's guide. . . . Levy's book provides a brief and accessible overview of much recent scholarship on the Stone." — Mary Scott, Journal of Asian Studies

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature

About the Author

Dore J. Levy is associate professor of comparative literature and East Asian Studies and chair of East Asian Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She is the author of Chinese Narrative Poetry: The Late Han Through T’ang Dynasties.

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