Condition Used - Very Good. Dust jacket with only light wear. Red page marker bound in. Very good slipcase. Internally clean and unmarked.
Description This is Volume II of the iconic Chinese literary classic A Dream of Red Mansions, also known as The Story of the Stone, authored by Tsao Hsueh-Chin and Kao Ngo. Translated into English and published in Peking by Foreign Languages Press in 1978, this is the first English edition, complete with illustrations and bound in a decorative red slipcase.
The novel is a richly detailed portrait of 18th-century aristocratic life in China, renowned for its psychological depth, social commentary, and evocative narrative. Volume II continues the saga of the Jia family and their declining fortunes, woven with intricate character relationships and poetic interludes.
