Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
$16.24
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2025
Summary
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lovell’s witty and charismatic translation, we meet one of its heroes - Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, whose powers include shape-shifting, immortality and being incredibly rude. Though he rises to a position of power in the heavenly bureaucracy, Monkey King’s arrogant exploits att…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241752401 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024175240X |
| Author: | Wu Cheng’en |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 74g |
| Dimensions: | 179mm x 111mm x 6mm |
| Series: | Penguin Archive |
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Wu Cheng’en
Very little is known about Wu Cheng’en (c. 1505-80), although he is believed to have held the post of District Magistrate for a time. He had a reputation as a good poet, but only a few rather commonplace verses of his survive in an anthology of Ming poetry and in a local gazetteer.
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