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Title: MONKEY
By: Wu Ch'eng-En, Arthur Waley (Trans)
Format: Paperback

List price: £9.99


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ISBN 10: 0141024941
ISBN 13: 9780141024943
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 6 July, 2006
Pages: 352
Translated from: Chinese
Description: Prince Tripitaka, a young Buddhist priest, has undertaken a dangerous quest to travel to India to retrieve sacred scriptures from a temple. On his way he finds three unruly companions who become his disciples: the greedy pig creature Pigsy, the river monster Sandy, and Monkey. The mischievous Monkey possesses certain skills that prove very handy.
Synopsis: Prince Tripitaka, a young Buddhist priest, has undertaken a dangerous quest to travel to India to retrieve sacred scriptures from a temple. On his way he finds three unruly companions who become his disciples: the greedy pig creature Pigsy, the river monster Sandy - and Monkey. Hatched from a stone egg and given the secrets of immortality, the mischievous trickster Monkey can fly through the air, ride on clouds, become invisible and transform himself into other shapes. And these skills prove very handy when the four travellers come up against the dragons, bandits, demons and evil wizards that seem determined to get in their way.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Returns: Returnable
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