Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1)
By Songling Pu · Running time 5:28:04 · Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Short Stories
Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.
About this book
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical Chinese rather than Vernacular Chinese. Pu is believed to have completed the majority of the tales sometime in 1679, though he could have added entries as late as 1707. He borrows from a folk tradition of oral storytelling to put to paper a series of captivating, colorful stories, where the boundary between reality and the odd or fantastic is blurred. The cast of characters includ
Description from the LibriVox catalogue.
Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →
You might also like
- Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1Songling Pu · 12:06:24
- Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2Songling Pu · 09:50:15
- 聊斋志异 (Liaozhai Zhiyi) ChineseSongling Pu · 3:06:40
- Canadian Wonder TalesCyrus Macmillan · 4:30:18
- American Indian Fairy TalesWilliam Trowbridge Larned, Henry R. Schoolcraft · 2:49:08
- American Fairy TalesL. Frank Baum · 2:56:44
- Twenty Two GoblinsAnonymous · 3:47:23
- Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before AchillesPádraic Colum · 7:33:22