Journey to the West (2016 Year of Monkey Collector's Edition I and II)

by Wu Cheng'en

Written by Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West (2016 Year of Monkey Collector's Edition I and II) (Hardcover) is one of the four great classical novels in classical Chinese literature. The novel was written by the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Cheng'en and it mainly tells the legendary adventure stories of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing who experienced eighty-one sufferings, killed demons all the way and protected Tang Monk to go on a pilgrimage for the Buddhist Scriptures. Mainly in vernacular Chinese, the novel also includes verses, ditties, odes and songs and uses a lot of exaggeration and parallelism. It features thrilling and weird plot, harmonious and interesting language, and lifelike images, thus a miracle in classical Chinese literature, which is popular and widely influential.

757 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 2016

About the author

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Wu Cheng'en (simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; pinyin: Wú Chéng'ēn, ca. 1505–1580 or 1500–1582, courtesy name Ruzhong (汝忠), pen name "Sheyang Hermit," was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty, best known for being the probable author of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Journey to the West, also called Monkey.