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红楼梦

Dream of the Red Chamber
Author(s):
CAO Xueqin 曹雪芹, YANG Xianyi 杨宪益,
Publisher:
Foreign Languages Press
Publication:
1/2015
Languages:
Chinese
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN/SKU:
9787119006437
Pages:
2554
Sizes:
172 x 126mm
Weight:
0.5000
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A Dream of Red Mansions is China’s greatest full-length classicalnovel. It is a tragic love story set against the background of thedecline of an aristocratic family. With this as its central theme,the novel unfolds a vast and moving panorama of social history. Italso parades a memorable and dazzling cast of characters. Thewide-raging and meticulous structure of A Dream of Red Mansions,together with its literary merit in the form of exquisite language,make it universally recognized as the epitome of the art of theclassical novel in China.A Dream of Red Mansions was written in themid-18th century and was ten years in the making. The presenttranslation, by China’s leading literary translation team of YangXianyi and his wife Gladys Yang, is the version most complete andmost faithful to the original.
《红楼梦》成书于18世纪中叶,是中国最伟大的一部古典长篇小说。它描写了一个由盛而衰的贵族大家庭中的爱情婚姻悲剧,并以此为中心展开了一幅广阔而生动的社会历史生活画面,塑造出贾宝玉、林黛玉等众多光彩夺目、令人难以忘怀的人物形象。《红楼梦》以其宏大精致的小说结构,博大精深的文化内涵,以及出色的语言艺术,被公认为中国古典小说艺术的。本译系中国著名的文学翻译家杨宪益、戴乃迭夫妇所译,它是一部最接近原著的《红楼梦》英文全译本。