Roberts, Moss books

Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)

His wife, a woman of the Chang clan, was abnormally jealous, and Hsien-yüan was too afraid of her to take a second wife who might bear him the sons he wanted. Chancellor Ma of the Grand Secretariat, the presiding official at Hsien-yüan’s degree examination, felt sorry for the young man and presen...