Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 44 results for “pu songling”
Skip side bar filters

  • Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 2 (of 2)

    by Songling Pu ...
    The Painted Skin: A story about a scholar who unknowingly marries a fox spirit disguised as a beautiful woman. The tale explores themes of deception, love, and the supernatural.The Magic Sword: This story revolves around a scholar who acquires a magical sword that gives him incredible power but also brings about unexpected consequences.The Taoist Priest of Lao Mountain: A Taoist priest encounters ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 2)

    by Songling Pu ...
    The Painted Skin: A story about a scholar who unknowingly marries a fox spirit disguised as a beautiful woman. The tale explores themes of deception, love, and the supernatural.The Magic Sword: This story revolves around a scholar who acquires a magical sword that gives him incredible power but also brings about unexpected consequences.The Taoist Priest of Lao Mountain: A Taoist priest encounters ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

    by Pu Songling ...
    Written during the early Qing Dynasty, "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" is a collection of nearly 500 mostly supernatural tales by Chinese author Pu Songling. The work, which was published posthumously sometime between 1740 and 1766, is comprised of stories varying in length. While the main characters of this book apparently are ghosts, foxes, immortals and demons, Pu Songling is more focused ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 2) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Qing Dynasty Ghosts, Fox Spirits, Folklore, and Supernatural Tales of Imperial China

    by Songling Pu, Celia Orwinley ...
    Translated by Herbert Allen Giles ...
    Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 2) gathers Pu Songling's celebrated classical tales of ghosts, fox-spirits, demons, scholars, lovers, judges, and eccentrics. Written in elegant wenyan prose yet alive with anecdotal immediacy, these stories transform the zhiguai and chuanqi traditions into subtle moral, erotic, and social fictions. The supernatural is never mere ornament: it ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 1

    by Pu Songling, Translated and Annotated by Sidney L. Sondergard ...
    The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality ... Read more

    $41.23 CAD

  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

    by Pu Songling ...
    Translated by John Minford ...
    The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Wailing Ghosts

    by Pu Songling ...
    Translated by John Minford ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    '...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Strange Stories 11-20

    Strange Stories, #2

    by Pu Songling ...
    Series Book 2 - Strange Stories
    This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them more accessible to a reader in this e-book format. In addition, Chinese personal and place names have been rendered into modern pinyin.Stories 11-20 ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

    The classic collection of eerie and fantastic Chinese stories of the supernatural

    by Pu Songling ...
    Translated by Herbert A. Giles ...
    Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century.These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn's well-known collections of Japanese ghost ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1 (Unabridged)

    by Songling Pu ...
    Narrated by Jacqueline Connolly, Jill Ketter, Abraham Valentine ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    In the enigmatic realm of 17th-century China, where the boundaries between reality and the supernatural blur, a collection of extraordinary tales awaits. "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" unveils a tapestry of haunting encounters, otherworldly beings, and enigmatic puzzles. From the haunting tale of a scholar who encounters a beautiful ghost to the chilling story of a man who discovers a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Story 5: The Taoist Priest of Laoshan

    Sample Titles from Pu Songling, #5

    by Pu Songling ...
    Series Book 5 - Sample Titles from Pu Songling
    This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them more accessible to a reader in this e-book format. In addition, Chinese personal and place names have been rendered into modern pinyin. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures (Warbler Classics)

    by Pu Songling ...
    Translated by George Soulié ...
    Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures gathers twenty-five stories from Pu Songling's collection of more than four hundred short stories-exquisitely amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. His work departed from the prevailing literary fashion that was dominated by more realistic stories written in the colloquial language. Pu instead wrote his stories ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD