Cao Xueqin — Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. I (Joly trans.)

This is the first volume of Cao Xueqin's eighteenth-century novel, "Dream of the Red Chamber," in a translation by H. Bencraft Joly. The novel is considered one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature and offers a detailed portrait of Qing Dynasty society.

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