Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 776 pages
- Published by: Princeton University Press May 22, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0691125341
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0691125343
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.3 x 2 inches
- Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Product Review
Roy has made a major contribution to our overall understanding of the novel by so structuring every page of his translation that the numerous levles of narration are clearly differentiated. . . . In addition, [he] has annotated the text with a precision, thoroughness, and passion for detail that makes even a veteran reader of monographs smile with a kind of quiet disbelief.
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Jonathan Spence New York Review of Books )
Racy, colloquial, and robustly scatalogical, [this translation] could only have been done now, when our literary language has finally shed its Victorian values. David Tod Roy enters with zest into the spirit and the letter of the original, quite surpassing . . . earlier versions.
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Paul St. John Mackintosh Literary Review )
Reading Roy's translation is a remarkable experience.
(
Robert Chatain Chicago Tribune Review of Books )
Product Review
Generations of readers will be grateful for Roy's monumental translation of the Chin P'ing Mei. The capstone in a distinguished career, this translation is a heroic and magnanimous act of scholarship. The encyclopedic annotation, which sets standards seldom matched by translation from any language, will be indispensable not only to the general reader but to scholars of this work.
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Sophie Volpp, University of California, Berkeley )
Reader ReviewsReceived my copy of Volume 3 of the late David Roy's "The Plum in the Golden Vase" when returning home from office and just couldn't put it down until 3.00am. I am sure, like others who have the interest in this novel, would regret the untimely passing away of David Roy before he could complete his translation. I wonder if PRINCETON UNIVERSITY will fund another scholar to take up where DR has left off.
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