A Dream of Red Mansions (Abridged Ed.)

This abridged English edition of the eighteenth-century classic A Dream of Red Mansions remains faithful to the original Yang Hsien-yi translation of Hong Lou Meng, generally considered the greatest Chinese novel ever written. This classic masterpiece of vernacular Chinese literature, written in the mid-eighteenth century, narrates the fall from glory of one of China's great aristocratic families. The unabridged edition is currently unavailable.