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Journey to the West

Wu Cheng'en

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1592
Originally in
Originally in Chinese
Pages
Pages 1760

A monk journeys west for sacred scriptures, guarded by an immortal monkey too unruly for heaven, a greedy pig-spirit and a river demon, and the four survive eighty-one trials until the scriptures, and enlightenment, are finally theirs.

Although not grown on a tree, I grew from a stone.
Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en

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