A Dream of Red Mansions (4-Volume Boxed Set)

This celebrated Chinese classic novel is a masterpiece of realism written in the middle of the 18th century. Taking as its background the decline of several related big families and drawing much from his own experiences, the author Cao Zueqin (?-c.1763) focused on the tragic love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Dairu and, in the meantime, provided a panorama of the lives of people of various levels in the degenerating empire. But he left the work unfinished (or the last 40 chapters were lost). G...