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Classical in form, epic, cool and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Wu Cheng'en
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 3375
- Publisher
- Foreign Language Press
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9787119024103
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First sentence
“At the end of the Ming Dynasty, someone called Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh, Journey to the West and Jin Ping Mei China's four outstanding novels.”
About Wu Cheng'en · 1500–1582
16th century Chinese novelist, poet, and politician during the Ming dynasty.
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