Read Series: The Story Of The Stone, Or The Dream Of The Red Chamber
by Author David Hawkes
The Warning Voice (1981)
Where to start? Volume 2 was as good as it was going to get in terms of consistency, character and plotting. Although Volume 3 often feels like it is falling apart despite the editors’ (Rouge Inkstone, Odd Tablet, translator David Hawkes) best efforts. Still, I continue to rate this five stars ...
The Golden Days (1974)
Not quite like anything I've ever read before, and I'm not sure what to make of it, or whether or not to say I "liked" it. Something like 3 stars for enjoyment, bumped up to four for novelty and for my curiosity about where this is all going. In any case, I'll definitely be continuing to the se...
The Crab-Flower Club (1977)
The Story of the Stone is an immensely fun, inviting, and enjoyable novel, but explaining why it is so is a bit of a challenge.Indeed, any literal-minded summary of its content would make it sound immensely, almost parodically boring, like some sort of hypothetical novel Borges might imagine on a...
The Dreamer Wakes (1986)
The Story of the Stone is one of the "Four Classic Chinese Novels." The value to the Western reader is that it provides great insight into the daily lives and culture of the Chinese Nobility in the 18th Century. Religion, which had been present but not prominent in the first four volumes of the...