Deeply moving, insightful and surprisingly funny, this is Christopher Fowler's life-affirming account of coming to terms with his own mortality. A delight . . . a glorious, witty and life-affirming ragbag of autobiography, cultural commentary and hard-won wisdom.' ANDREW TAYLOR, author of The Shadows of London If you enjoyed Monkey, you might like Confucius's The Analects, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. Read more Details Title of this post speaks for itself. TFM is an incredibly rare individual of our time that is willing to truly question life and discover answers. He inspires you to deeply connect with yourself and find your purpose in this life. His writing style in this book reminds me of Miyamoto Musashi who is an ancient philosopher that had an incredible perspective and understanding of life.

Monkey Bookmark, Initial Monkey Bookmark, Monkey Gift, Hand Stamped, Monkey Gifts, Readers Gift, Book Lover Gifts, Animal Bookmark, Animals ART PRINT | Vintage Monkey Oil Painting | 19th Century Animal Portrait |Monkey on Top of a Book Pile Art Print | Animal Lovers GiftIt's the story of how a young bookworm growing up in a house where there was nothing to read but knitting pamphlets and motorcycle manuals became a writer - a 'word monkey' - and pursued a sort of career in popular fiction. And it's a book full of brilliant insights into the pleasures and pitfalls of his profession, dos and don'ts for would-be writers, and astute observations on favourite (and not-so-favourite) novelists. Penguin Book Cover Parody | Custom Print | Classic Books | Quote Poster | Personalised Gift | Birthday Gift | Wedding Gift | Anniversary At the outset of the novel, the Buddha seeks a pilgrim who will travel to India. The hope is to retrieve sacred scriptures by which the Chinese people may be enlightened so that their behaviour may accord with the tenets of Buddhism. The young monk Tripitaka volunteers to undertake the pilgrimage. Along the way, he encounters and frees the Monkey King. He and Monkey thereafter recruit Pigsy and Sandy. They liberate a captive princess and punish her abductor, who has also murdered her father. The father is resurrected and reinstalled as king. They meet several bodhisattvas and fight fierce monsters, before finally arriving at Buddha's palace. The Journey to the West," in Barbara Stoler Miller. Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994 ISBN 1563242575), pp. 274-275

Clever, wise, heartbreaking and yet also life-affirmingly funny: his literary comic lightness of touch is on a par with Wodehouse. JOANNE HARRIS, bestselling author of Broken Light and Chocolat

Select a format:

Journey to the West may be roughly divided into three parts: first, the introduction including the origin of Monkey ( Sun Wukong), Tripitaka ( Tang Sanzang), Pigsy ( Zhu Bajie), and Sandy ( Sha Wujing); second, the actual journey to the west, which has an episodic nature; and last, the ending, telling what happens when the pilgrims reach their destination. Waley chose to translate the entirety of the introductory and ending chapters, as well as three episodes, each several chapters long, of the journey to the west. Very little is known about Wu Ch'êng-ên (c.1505-80) although he is believed to have held the post of District Magistrate for a time. He had a reputation as a good poet but only a few rather commonplace verses of his survive in an anthology of Ming poetry and in a local gazetteer.

Enjoy a great reading experience when you borrow the Kindle edition of this book with your Kindle Unlimited membership. Pair of Reading Monkey Bookends Ornaments Figures Book Case Shelf Ends Gorilla Statue Home Office Decor Bookshelf Shelf Sitters GiftYu, Anthony C. (2012). "Introduction". Journey to the West. Vol.1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp.1–96. Waley's translation was for many years the most popular version of Journey to the West in the English language and therefore cited by Western scholars of Chinese literature. Professor of Chinese literature David Lattimore described it as a "minor landmark of 20th-century English translation" but with the publication of Anthony C. Yu's four-volume, unabridged translation it must now "relinquish its always slender claim to represent, with any degree of substantiality, the Chinese original". [1] In 2000, Elaine Yee Lin Ho, in her study of the British writer Timothy Mo, says Monkey remains "the most popular and textually accessible translation" of Journey to the West. [5] Happy Monkey Funny Vinyl Bookmark w/ Tassel Book Reader Bookworm Lover Avid Reader Geek | Book Club Gift | Librarian | Embroidery Vinyl