Rank 13 of 100
Dream of the Red Chamber
Also known as The Story of the Stone, Honglou Meng
Synopsis
Inside a great household of the Qing world, a boy born with a jade in his mouth grows up among cousins, poetry clubs, and the slow leak of a family’s fortune. Cao’s vast novel watches love and status fray at the same time, until the garden that seemed endless starts to empty.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1791
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Literary, Historical
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 18th century
- Movement
- Classical Chinese fiction
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 2,320 pages
- Reported copies
- About 100 million copies
- Kind
- Fiction