Cao Xueqin

The Story of the Stone

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A novel of manners in Chinese literature.

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Produktdetails

• The Story of the Stone
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 1980
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780140443707
• ISBN-10: 0140443703
• Artikelnr.: 21658182

Autorenporträt

Cao Xueqin; Translated with an Introduction by David Hawkes

Inhaltsangabe

The Story of the Stone Volume 3Note on Spelling
Preface
Chapter 54:
Lady Jia ridicules the cliches of romantic fiction; And Wang Xi-feng
emulates the filifal antics of Lao Lia-zi
Chapter 55:
A foolish concubine seeks to humiliate her own daughter; And an ill-natured
stewardess tries to outwit her young mistress
Chapter 56:
Resourceful Tan-chun abolilshes abuses in the interests of econoomy; And
sapient Bao-chai shows how small consessions can be made without loss of
dignity
Chapter 57:
Nightengale tests Jade Boy with a startling message; And Aunt Xue comforts
Frowner with words of loving kindness
Chapter 58:
In which the cock-bird who mourns his mate is found to be a hen; And a true
heart is able to sympathize with a strange kind of love
Chapter 59:
By Willow Walk the conververs of property resort to violence and abuse; And
at Green Delights the defenders of law and order invoke a higher authority
Chapter 60:
As a substiture for rose-orris Jia Huan is given jasmine face-powder; And
in return for rose essence Cook Liu is given lycoperdon snow
Chapter 61:
Bao-yu owns up to a crime he did not commit; And Patience bends authority
in order that the innocent may be spared
Chapter 62:
A tipsy Xiang-yun sleeps on a peony-petal pillow; And a grateful Caltrop
unfastens her pomegranate skirt
Chapter 63:
Flower-maidens combine for nocturnal birthday revels; And a grass widow
copes with funeral arrangments single-handed
Chapter 64:
Five fair women make subjects for a chaste maid's verse; And nine jade
dragons make a love-gift for a flirt
Chapter 65:
Jia Lian's second marriage is celebrated in secret; And the future marriage
of San-jie becomes a matter of speculation
Chapter 66:
Shame drives a warm-hearted young woman to take her life; And shock leads a
cold-hearted young gentleman to renounce the world
Chapter 67:
Frowner sees something that makes her homesick; And Xi-feng hears something
that rouses her suspicions
Chapter 68:
Er-jie takes up residence in Prospect Garden; And Xi-feng makes a
disturbance in Ning-guo House
Chapter 69:
A scheming woman kills with a borrowed knife; And one who has ceased to
hope swallows gold and dies
Chapter 70:
Lin Dai-yu resuscitates the Poetry Club; And Shi Xiang-yun tries her hand
at a song lyric
Chapter 71:
Lady Xing deliberately humiliates her daughter-in-law; And Faithful
inadvertently iterrupts a pair of love-birds
Chapter 72:
Wang Xi-fen refuses to see a doctor; And Brightie's wife seeks help with a
betrothal
Chapter 73:
A half-witted servant girl picks up a highly embarrassing object; And an
easy-going young mistress refuses to inquire into a theft
Chapter 74:
Lady Wang authorizes a raid on Prospect Garden; And Jia Xi-chun breaks off
relations with Ning-guo House
Chapter 75:
Midnight revellers are startled by a sound of evil omen; And Mid-Autumn
moon-watchers listen to quantrains of unequal merit
Chapter 76:
Flute-playing at Convex Pavillion provokes too much melancholy; And linked
verses at Concave Pavilion betray a morbid sensitivity
Chapter 77:
A wronged maid takes a loving last leave of her master; And three young
actresses seek to escape matrimony in the cloister
Chapter 78:
Jia Zheng commissions the Ballad of the Winsome Colonel; And Bao-yu
composes an Invocation to the Hibiscus Spirit
Chapter 79:
Xue Pan finds to his sorrow that he is married to a termagant; And
Ying-chun's parents betroth her to a Zhong-shan wolf
Chapter 80:
Unfortunate Caltrop is battered by a philandering husband; And One Plaster
Wang presribes for an insufferavle wife
Appendix I: Sandal, Musk, and Skybright
Appendix II: Suncloud, Sunset and Moonrise
Appendix III: You San-jie, Liu Xiang-lian and Jia Lian's Journeys
Appendix IV: Old Mrs. You and the Zhangs
Appendix V: Fivey, Bao Er and The Mattress
Appendix VI: Euergesia and the Little Actresses
Characters in Volume 3
Genealogical Tables