Monkey Folk Novel of China Author:Ch'Eng-En Wu, Arthur Waley (Translator) Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters and fairies. — This transla... more »tion, by the distinguished scholar Arthur Waley, is the first accurate English version; it makes available to the Western reader a faithful reproduction of the spirit and meaning of the original. « less