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Guide Picks - Top 5 Books on A Dream of Red Mansions
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"A Dream of Red Mansions" is the most famous classic novel in China.
The title is also translated into "The Story of the Stone." Read the novel if you really want to
know the traditional Chinese society. "
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1) A Dream of Red Mansions
By Cao Xueqin, et al. Paperback, 340 pages, 1995, ISBN: 0835125297
This is an abridged edition so it may be more readable for Western readers.
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2) A Dream of Red Mansions (4-Volume Boxed Set)
By Xueqin Cao, paperback, 2556 pages (January 2001), ISBN: 7119006436
This is the complete book.
"The author Cao Xueqin (?-c.1763) focused on the tragic love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu and,
in the meantime, provides a panorama of the lives of people of various levels in
the degenerating empire. But he left the work unfinished (or the last 40 chapters
lost). Gao E (c.1738-c.1815) completed the work some years later in much of
Cao's spirit and also put in his own revelation, which aroused protracted
controversy throughout centuries." -- Book Description
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3) The Story of the Stone : A Chinese Novel in Five Volumes
by Cao Xueqin, et al. Paperback Vol. 1 of 5 (March 1974), ISBN: 0140442936
Another translation. This is the first volume of the book.
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