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Monkey KingWu Ch'eng-en, Julia Lovell

Monkey King

Wu Ch'eng-en, Julia Lovell
2010352 pages
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"A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now in a thrilling new one-volume translation A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle; the ability to travel 108,000 miles in a single somersault. A master of…

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4 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2021
    Penguin Books, Limited · 352 pages · 9780141393445
  • Other · English · 2022
    Penguin Books, Limited · 9780241457399
  • Other · English · 2021
    Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141993560
  • Other · English · 2010
    Penguin Books, Limited · 9781408220849
Language and languagesFictionPilgrims and pilgrimagesDemonologyImmortalism