The Tale of Kieu

The Tale of Kieu
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 0300040512
ISBN-13 : 9780300040517
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Download or read book The Tale of Kieu written by and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thông’s new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is illuminated by notes that give comparative passages from the Chinese novel on which the poem was based, details on Chinese allusions, and literal translations with background information explaining Vietnamese proverbs and folk sayings.


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