The Old Man of the Moon - Penguin Little Black Classics
Fu Shen (author), Leonard Pratt (translator), Su-hui Chiang (translator), Fu Shen
Paperback (26 Feb 2015)


Publishers Synopsis

Our passion was so great. Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?

The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fus intimate and moving account of his marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great, enduring love for his wife in eighteenth-century China.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.


Shen Fu (born c. 1763). Shen Fus work is available in Penguin Classics in Six Records of a Floating Life.


Book information

ISBN: 9780141397801
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 26 Feb 2015
DEWEY: 895.1348
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 56
Weight: 54g
Height: 162mm
Width: 111mm
Spine width: 6mm