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Monkey King

Journey to the West (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Author Wu Cheng'en
Foreword by Gene Luen Yang
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Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China's Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now published in a thrilling new one-volume translation with an illustrated foreword by Gene Luen Yang

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper


A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature, known to legions of fans of the most popular anime of all time, Dragon Ball, and the world's largest e-sport, the video game League of Legends. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle; the ability to travel 108,000 miles in a single somersault. A master of subterfuge, he can transform himself into whomever or whatever he chooses and turn each of his body's 84,000 hairs into an army of clones. But his penchant for mischief repeatedly gets him into trouble, and when he raids Heaven's Orchard of Immortal Peaches and gorges himself on the elixirs of the gods, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain, freeing him only five hundred years later for a chance to redeem himself: He is to protect the pious monk Tripitaka on his fourteen-year journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire.

Joined by two other fallen immortals--Pigsy, a rice-loving pig able to fly with its ears, and Sandy, a depressive man-eating river-sand monster--Monkey King undergoes eighty-one trials, doing battle with Red Boy, Princess Jade-Face, the Monstress Dowager, and all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards, and femmes fatales, navigating the perils of Fire-Cloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand, the Water-Crystal Palace, and Casserole Mountain, and being serially captured, lacquered, sautéed, steamed, and liquefied, but always hatching an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam.

Monkey King: Journey to the West is at once a rollicking adventure, a comic satire of Chinese bureaucracy, and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new translation, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault, with his signature cloud-somersault and unerring sense for fun, into the hearts of millions of Americans.

Chapter One

 

After Pan Gu created the universe, by separating earth and sky with his mighty ax, the world was divided into four continents, in the north, south, east, and west. Our story takes place in the east.

 

By a great ocean lay a land called Aolai, within which was a mountain called Flower-Fruit, home to sundry immortals. What a mountain it was: of crimson ridges and strange boulders, phoenixes and unicorns, evergreen grasses and immortal peaches. And on its peak sat a divine stone, thirty-six and a half feet high, twenty-four in circumference.

 

Since creation, this rock had been nourished by Heaven and Earth, the sun and the moon, until it was divinely inspired with an immortal embryo, and one day gave birth to a stone egg, about as large as a ball. After exposure to the air, it turned into a stone monkey, with perfectly sculpted features and limbs. This monkey learned to climb and run, then bowed in all four directions of the compass. Two golden rays shone from his eyes all the way to the Palace of the Polestar, startling the benevolent sage of Heaven, the Jade Emperor, while he sat on his throne in the Hall of Divine Mists surrounded by his immortal ministers. The emperor ordered two of his generals, Thousand-Mile Eye and Follow-the-Wind Ear, to look out of the South Gate of Heaven and locate the source of this light. "Your humble servants," they soon reported back, "have traced it back to Flower-Fruit Mountain, in the small country of Aolai on the eastern continent, where a rock has given birth to an egg, which has turned into a stone monkey, whose golden eyes have dazzled even Your Majesty. But now the monkey has paused for some refreshment, and the blaze has dimmed."

 

"The creatures of the mortal world are all born from heaven and earth," the Jade Emperor remarked tolerantly. "Nothing they do can surprise us."

 

The monkey gamboled over the mountains, eating grass, drinking from streams, picking mountain flowers, hunting for fruit; he kept company with wolves and snakes, tigers and panthers, befriended deer and antelope, and swore brotherhood with macaques and apes. At night, he slept below cliffs; at sunrise, he wandered through mountains and caves, with no sense of the passing of time.

 

One sweltering morning, he sheltered from the heat with a crowd of monkeys in the shade of some pines; they swung from branch to branch, built sand pagodas, and chased dragonflies and lizards. Afterward, bathing in a mountain stream, they noticed how its current seemed to tumble like rolling melons and wondered where it was coming from. "As we don't have anything particular to do today," one of them suggested, "let's follow the stream to its origin." With shrieks of happy agreement, they all scrambled up the mountain to a great curtain of a waterfall.

 

The monkeys clapped their hands in delight. "Whoever dares pass through the waterfall to discover the source of the water, and returns alive, can be our king."

 

After three calls for a volunteer, the stone monkey suddenly jumped out of the crowd. "I'll go!" This excellent monkey closed his eyes, crouched, then sprang with one bound through the sheet of water. Once on the other side, he opened his eyes. Before him was a gleaming iron bridge, under which flowed the source of the stream. From the bridge, he could see into a beautiful cave residence: cushioned with moss, hung with stalactites, furnished with carved benches and beds, and equipped with pans and stoves. In the middle of the bridge hung a stone tablet on which was written, in large, regular calligraphy, the following address:

 

Heavenly Water-Curtain Cave

The Blessed Land of Flower-Fruit Mountain

 

The stone monkey leaped back out through the waterfall. "Fantastic luck!" he whooped.

 

"What's it like inside?" the other monkeys crowded around to ask. "How deep is the water?"

 

"It's the perfect place for us to make our home, an ideal refuge from heaven's fits of temper," explained the stone monkey, and described the wonders of Water-Curtain Cave. "It could easily hold thousands of us. Let's move in straightaway."

 

"You go first and we'll follow behind!" yelped the others.

 

Once more, the stone monkey crouched, shut his eyes, and sprang through the water. "Come on!" he called. The braver of the monkeys immediately followed; the more nervous ones tweaked their ears, scratched their cheeks, stretched, and chattered a good deal before eventually leaping onto the bridge and into the cave. Once there, they were soon snatching at bowls, fighting over stoves and beds, and dragging things back and forth-for such is the mischief of monkeys. There was not a moment's peace until they'd fretted themselves into exhaustion.

 

The stone monkey spoke again: "A monkey stands and falls by his word. You promised that whoever dared pass through the waterfall and returned safely would be king. So what are you waiting for?"

 

Without a murmur of dissent, the monkeys immediately bowed and wished their new king a long, long life. Their new ruler quickly dropped his old name-Stone Monkey-in favor of Beautiful Monkey King and appointed a few of the monkeys to ministerial and civil service positions. The monkeys then devoted themselves to exploring the delights of Flower-Fruit Mountain by day and returning to Water-Curtain Cave at night.

 

The Beautiful Monkey King lived this happy, innocent life for somewhere between three and five hundred years. Then one day, while banqueting with the other monkeys, he suddenly became melancholy and began to weep. "What has upset our great king?" clamored the others.

 

"I fear for the future," the monkey king explained with a sigh.

 

"But we live in bliss," said his subjects, laughing, "slaves of neither the unicorn, phoenix, nor man. Why are you worrying about the future?"

 

The monkey king said: "Life is good now, but eventually we will grow old and fall into the clutches of Yama, King of the Underworld."

 

While the monkey masses-instantly fearful-buried their faces in their hands and mewled piteously, a long-armed ape jumped out of the crowd: "Our great king's new sense of mortality suggests the beginnings of a religious calling. Only three types of creature can escape King Yama and his wheel of life and death: Buddhas, immortals, and holy sages."

 

"Where are they to be found?" asked the monkey king.

 

"In ancient caves on divine mountains."

 

"I leave immediately," declared the monkey king. "Even if my quest takes me to the very end of the world, I will return with the secret of eternal life."

 

All the monkeys applauded wildly. "Marvelous! First, though, we will gather fruits from far away for a huge send-off feast." The next day was taken up with preparing and consuming this banquet, an extraordinary spread of plums, cherries, lychees, pears, dates, peaches, strawberries, almonds, walnuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts, tangerines, sugarcane, persimmons and pomegranates, and coconut and grape wine. The monkey king sat at the head of the tables, with his subjects approaching in turn, in strict order of age and rank, to toast him with wine, flowers, and fruit.

 

The following day, the monkey king rose early. "Make me a dry pinewood raft, little monkeys, and fetch me a bamboo pole and some fruit for the journey." When all was ready, he hopped onto the raft and, pushing off with all his might, set off across the ocean. He was in luck, for a strong southeasterly wind blew him directly to the northwest coast of the southern continent. When his bamboo pole told him he was in shallow water, he abandoned the raft for the shoreline, where he encountered humans hunting for fish, wild geese, and clams and dredging salt.

 

He ran at them, making strange faces, and they dropped their baskets and nets and scattered in terror. The monkey king grabbed the slowest of them and stripped him of his clothes. After dressing in them, Monkey made a tour of the continent's towns and cities, studying human manners and speech. Eight or nine years passed. Monkey remained determined to seek the formula for eternal life, while the humans who surrounded him sought only money and fame, without a thought for their own mortality; no one cared what became of him.

 

Eventually, Monkey came to the Western Ocean. Still in search of immortals, he built himself another raft and floated across to the western continent. In time, he approached a beautiful, jagged mountain, thickly forested at its base and luxuriant with flowers, grasses, mosses, bamboo, and pines-an ideal hermit's refuge. Unconcerned about the danger of wolves, snakes, tigers, or leopards, Monkey climbed up to look around. When he reached the top, he suddenly heard a human voice singing deep within a copse of trees.

 

I sleep till dawn then wander the wood,

 

cutting creepers for my livelihood.

 

When I've gathered as much as I can hold,

 

I stroll singing through the market till it's sold.

 

I trade my load for wine and rice,

 

and never haggle over the price.

 

Living without ambition or conceit,

 

only immortals and Taoists will I meet.

 

"At last!" the monkey king rejoiced to himself. Skipping through the forest, he came face-to-face with a woodcutter busy at work, dressed in a large conical hat made of young bamboo, a cotton-gauze tunic with a silk sash, and straw sandals. "Salutations, immortal!" Monkey hailed him.

 

The flustered woodcutter dropped his ax. "Hush! I am a poor, ignorant man unable even to feed or clothe myself."

 

"Why, then, do you sing about immortals?" Monkey asked him.

 

The woodcutter laughed: "Oh, that. A neighbor of mine, an immortal as it happens, taught the song to me, to cheer me up when life was getting me down. A moment ago, I started worrying about something, so I sang it. I didn't know anyone was listening."

 

"Why don't you become his disciple? You could learn the secret of eternal life."

 

"I've not had an easy life," the woodcutter explained. "My father died when I was seven or eight. I'm an only child, and have been my mother's sole support ever since. And now that she's getting old, she needs me all the more. All we have is the rice and tea I get in exchange for my firewood. I can't abandon her for a religious life."

 

"Well, I'm sure you will be rewarded in later life for your filial devotion. In the meantime, though, could you point the way to the immortal's house, so that I can pay him a visit?"

 

"It's not far. This is Heart and Soul Mountain. About seven or eight miles to the south, you'll come to the Cave of the Tilted Moon and Three Stars, the home of an immortal called Subodhi, who has trained many disciples, and currently has thirty or forty studying under him."

 

Monkey tugged at the woodcutter. "Come with me! You won't regret it."

 

"Did you not listen to anything I said just now?" he answered, exasperated. "I've wood to chop. On your way now."

 

So Monkey left the woodcutter and found the path to the south. After seven or eight miles, a heavenly cave dwelling came into sight, shrouded in mists and light, framed by an emerald-green forest of bamboo and cypress and by moss-covered hanging cliffs. Cranes, phoenixes, apes, deer, lions, and elephants roamed about. The entrance was tightly sealed and the place seemed uninhabited, but a huge stone slab-thirty feet long by eight feet wide-told Monkey that the woodcutter had spoken the truth: the cave of the tilted moon and three stars, heart and soul mountain. Not daring to knock, Monkey loitered on a nearby pine, nibbling some nuts.

 

After a very short while, the door creaked open and a young immortal of exceptionally refined looks emerged. He wore a robe with loose, billowing sleeves; his hair was bound with silk cords. "Who's making all that noise?"

 

Jumping down from the tree, Monkey bowed. "I didn't mean to disturb you. I'm here to learn the secret of eternal life."

 

"You seek the Way, you say?" The young man smiled. "Our master just told me to look outside the front door for a new student."

 

"That would be me!" exclaimed Monkey.

 

"Come on, then," the young man said, ushering him inside.

 

Monkey followed the youth deep into the cave, past story upon story and row upon row of jeweled pavilions, towers, and arches, until they reached the foot of a jade platform, on top of which sat Subodhi, the famous Patriarch of the West; thirty trainee immortals sat on the ground below. "Master!" Monkey gasped, launching into a frenzy of kowtows.

 

"Tell me your name and where you're from," Subodhi asked, "before you smash your head beyond repair."

 

"I come from Water-Curtain Cave on Flower-Fruit Mountain in the land of Aolai on the eastern continent."

 

"Throw him out!" Subodhi roared. "Liars can't learn enlightenment! Two oceans and the southern continent lie between here and Aolai."

 

Monkey resumed his kowtowing, this time at double speed. "It's true!" he protested. "My journey here took more than ten years."

 

"Hmpf," conceded Subodhi. "That sounds about right. So what's your name? Who were your parents?"

 

"I have no parents," Monkey replied.

 

"Were you born from a tree, then?"

 

"All I can remember is an immortal rock on Flower-Fruit Mountain. One year, it split open, and there I was."

 

"I see," considered Subodhi, hiding his delight at this revelation. "So you were born of heaven and earth. Get up and walk about, so I can look at you." Monkey scampered this way and that. "You're not exactly classically handsome," Subodhi said, laughing, "but you look exactly as a monkey reared on fruit and nuts ought to. I'll give you a surname: Sun. Written one way, it means monkey. But I'll drop the animal radical, leaving us with the Sun that means child."

 

Monkey burbled with glee. "A surname! I've got a surname! But can I have a given name also, so that you can easily call me hither and thither?"

 

"The given names of my disciples rotate within a cycle of twelve characters."

 

"And those twelve characters are?"

 

"Broad, guang; great, da; wise, zhi; intelligent, hui; true, zhen; obedient, ru; of nature, xing; of the sea, hai; outstanding, ying; awoken, wu; rounded, yuan; enlightened, jue. As you fall into the tenth, 'awoken,' wu, I will call you Sun Wukong: Sun-who-has-awoken-to-emptiness. Happy with that?"

 

"Sun Wukong!" Monkey chortled. "I love it!"

 

The name spoke an important truth: for at the beginning of everything, there were no names-only emptiness. To advance from emptiness, living creatures must first become aware of it.

 

And if you wish to know what Monkey learned next, you must read on.

 

Chapter Two

 

While Monkey pranced delightedly about, Subodhi ordered the congregation to take him away and teach him some basic rules of hygiene and etiquette. The disciples found Monkey a place in the corridor where he could sleep, and the following morning he began to learn from his fellow students how to speak and behave. Day in, day out, they discussed scriptures and doctrines; he practiced calligraphy and burned incense. In his spare time, he swept the ground and weeded the gardens, tended to the trees and flowers, gathered wood and lit fires, and fetched water and carried drinks. Six or seven perfectly contented years slipped by. Eventually, Subodhi climbed back onto his rostrum and summoned his immortals for a lecture on doctrine: a synthesis of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

Copyright © 2021 by Wu Cheng'en. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Wu Cheng'en (c. 1505-1580) was a Ming Dynasty poet about whom little is known, although he is believed to be the author of Journey to the West, which he published anonymously. He lived much of his life as a hermit. View titles by Wu Cheng'en

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Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China's Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now published in a thrilling new one-volume translation with an illustrated foreword by Gene Luen Yang

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper


A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature, known to legions of fans of the most popular anime of all time, Dragon Ball, and the world's largest e-sport, the video game League of Legends. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle; the ability to travel 108,000 miles in a single somersault. A master of subterfuge, he can transform himself into whomever or whatever he chooses and turn each of his body's 84,000 hairs into an army of clones. But his penchant for mischief repeatedly gets him into trouble, and when he raids Heaven's Orchard of Immortal Peaches and gorges himself on the elixirs of the gods, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain, freeing him only five hundred years later for a chance to redeem himself: He is to protect the pious monk Tripitaka on his fourteen-year journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire.

Joined by two other fallen immortals--Pigsy, a rice-loving pig able to fly with its ears, and Sandy, a depressive man-eating river-sand monster--Monkey King undergoes eighty-one trials, doing battle with Red Boy, Princess Jade-Face, the Monstress Dowager, and all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards, and femmes fatales, navigating the perils of Fire-Cloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand, the Water-Crystal Palace, and Casserole Mountain, and being serially captured, lacquered, sautéed, steamed, and liquefied, but always hatching an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam.

Monkey King: Journey to the West is at once a rollicking adventure, a comic satire of Chinese bureaucracy, and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new translation, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault, with his signature cloud-somersault and unerring sense for fun, into the hearts of millions of Americans.

Excerpt

Chapter One

 

After Pan Gu created the universe, by separating earth and sky with his mighty ax, the world was divided into four continents, in the north, south, east, and west. Our story takes place in the east.

 

By a great ocean lay a land called Aolai, within which was a mountain called Flower-Fruit, home to sundry immortals. What a mountain it was: of crimson ridges and strange boulders, phoenixes and unicorns, evergreen grasses and immortal peaches. And on its peak sat a divine stone, thirty-six and a half feet high, twenty-four in circumference.

 

Since creation, this rock had been nourished by Heaven and Earth, the sun and the moon, until it was divinely inspired with an immortal embryo, and one day gave birth to a stone egg, about as large as a ball. After exposure to the air, it turned into a stone monkey, with perfectly sculpted features and limbs. This monkey learned to climb and run, then bowed in all four directions of the compass. Two golden rays shone from his eyes all the way to the Palace of the Polestar, startling the benevolent sage of Heaven, the Jade Emperor, while he sat on his throne in the Hall of Divine Mists surrounded by his immortal ministers. The emperor ordered two of his generals, Thousand-Mile Eye and Follow-the-Wind Ear, to look out of the South Gate of Heaven and locate the source of this light. "Your humble servants," they soon reported back, "have traced it back to Flower-Fruit Mountain, in the small country of Aolai on the eastern continent, where a rock has given birth to an egg, which has turned into a stone monkey, whose golden eyes have dazzled even Your Majesty. But now the monkey has paused for some refreshment, and the blaze has dimmed."

 

"The creatures of the mortal world are all born from heaven and earth," the Jade Emperor remarked tolerantly. "Nothing they do can surprise us."

 

The monkey gamboled over the mountains, eating grass, drinking from streams, picking mountain flowers, hunting for fruit; he kept company with wolves and snakes, tigers and panthers, befriended deer and antelope, and swore brotherhood with macaques and apes. At night, he slept below cliffs; at sunrise, he wandered through mountains and caves, with no sense of the passing of time.

 

One sweltering morning, he sheltered from the heat with a crowd of monkeys in the shade of some pines; they swung from branch to branch, built sand pagodas, and chased dragonflies and lizards. Afterward, bathing in a mountain stream, they noticed how its current seemed to tumble like rolling melons and wondered where it was coming from. "As we don't have anything particular to do today," one of them suggested, "let's follow the stream to its origin." With shrieks of happy agreement, they all scrambled up the mountain to a great curtain of a waterfall.

 

The monkeys clapped their hands in delight. "Whoever dares pass through the waterfall to discover the source of the water, and returns alive, can be our king."

 

After three calls for a volunteer, the stone monkey suddenly jumped out of the crowd. "I'll go!" This excellent monkey closed his eyes, crouched, then sprang with one bound through the sheet of water. Once on the other side, he opened his eyes. Before him was a gleaming iron bridge, under which flowed the source of the stream. From the bridge, he could see into a beautiful cave residence: cushioned with moss, hung with stalactites, furnished with carved benches and beds, and equipped with pans and stoves. In the middle of the bridge hung a stone tablet on which was written, in large, regular calligraphy, the following address:

 

Heavenly Water-Curtain Cave

The Blessed Land of Flower-Fruit Mountain

 

The stone monkey leaped back out through the waterfall. "Fantastic luck!" he whooped.

 

"What's it like inside?" the other monkeys crowded around to ask. "How deep is the water?"

 

"It's the perfect place for us to make our home, an ideal refuge from heaven's fits of temper," explained the stone monkey, and described the wonders of Water-Curtain Cave. "It could easily hold thousands of us. Let's move in straightaway."

 

"You go first and we'll follow behind!" yelped the others.

 

Once more, the stone monkey crouched, shut his eyes, and sprang through the water. "Come on!" he called. The braver of the monkeys immediately followed; the more nervous ones tweaked their ears, scratched their cheeks, stretched, and chattered a good deal before eventually leaping onto the bridge and into the cave. Once there, they were soon snatching at bowls, fighting over stoves and beds, and dragging things back and forth-for such is the mischief of monkeys. There was not a moment's peace until they'd fretted themselves into exhaustion.

 

The stone monkey spoke again: "A monkey stands and falls by his word. You promised that whoever dared pass through the waterfall and returned safely would be king. So what are you waiting for?"

 

Without a murmur of dissent, the monkeys immediately bowed and wished their new king a long, long life. Their new ruler quickly dropped his old name-Stone Monkey-in favor of Beautiful Monkey King and appointed a few of the monkeys to ministerial and civil service positions. The monkeys then devoted themselves to exploring the delights of Flower-Fruit Mountain by day and returning to Water-Curtain Cave at night.

 

The Beautiful Monkey King lived this happy, innocent life for somewhere between three and five hundred years. Then one day, while banqueting with the other monkeys, he suddenly became melancholy and began to weep. "What has upset our great king?" clamored the others.

 

"I fear for the future," the monkey king explained with a sigh.

 

"But we live in bliss," said his subjects, laughing, "slaves of neither the unicorn, phoenix, nor man. Why are you worrying about the future?"

 

The monkey king said: "Life is good now, but eventually we will grow old and fall into the clutches of Yama, King of the Underworld."

 

While the monkey masses-instantly fearful-buried their faces in their hands and mewled piteously, a long-armed ape jumped out of the crowd: "Our great king's new sense of mortality suggests the beginnings of a religious calling. Only three types of creature can escape King Yama and his wheel of life and death: Buddhas, immortals, and holy sages."

 

"Where are they to be found?" asked the monkey king.

 

"In ancient caves on divine mountains."

 

"I leave immediately," declared the monkey king. "Even if my quest takes me to the very end of the world, I will return with the secret of eternal life."

 

All the monkeys applauded wildly. "Marvelous! First, though, we will gather fruits from far away for a huge send-off feast." The next day was taken up with preparing and consuming this banquet, an extraordinary spread of plums, cherries, lychees, pears, dates, peaches, strawberries, almonds, walnuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts, tangerines, sugarcane, persimmons and pomegranates, and coconut and grape wine. The monkey king sat at the head of the tables, with his subjects approaching in turn, in strict order of age and rank, to toast him with wine, flowers, and fruit.

 

The following day, the monkey king rose early. "Make me a dry pinewood raft, little monkeys, and fetch me a bamboo pole and some fruit for the journey." When all was ready, he hopped onto the raft and, pushing off with all his might, set off across the ocean. He was in luck, for a strong southeasterly wind blew him directly to the northwest coast of the southern continent. When his bamboo pole told him he was in shallow water, he abandoned the raft for the shoreline, where he encountered humans hunting for fish, wild geese, and clams and dredging salt.

 

He ran at them, making strange faces, and they dropped their baskets and nets and scattered in terror. The monkey king grabbed the slowest of them and stripped him of his clothes. After dressing in them, Monkey made a tour of the continent's towns and cities, studying human manners and speech. Eight or nine years passed. Monkey remained determined to seek the formula for eternal life, while the humans who surrounded him sought only money and fame, without a thought for their own mortality; no one cared what became of him.

 

Eventually, Monkey came to the Western Ocean. Still in search of immortals, he built himself another raft and floated across to the western continent. In time, he approached a beautiful, jagged mountain, thickly forested at its base and luxuriant with flowers, grasses, mosses, bamboo, and pines-an ideal hermit's refuge. Unconcerned about the danger of wolves, snakes, tigers, or leopards, Monkey climbed up to look around. When he reached the top, he suddenly heard a human voice singing deep within a copse of trees.

 

I sleep till dawn then wander the wood,

 

cutting creepers for my livelihood.

 

When I've gathered as much as I can hold,

 

I stroll singing through the market till it's sold.

 

I trade my load for wine and rice,

 

and never haggle over the price.

 

Living without ambition or conceit,

 

only immortals and Taoists will I meet.

 

"At last!" the monkey king rejoiced to himself. Skipping through the forest, he came face-to-face with a woodcutter busy at work, dressed in a large conical hat made of young bamboo, a cotton-gauze tunic with a silk sash, and straw sandals. "Salutations, immortal!" Monkey hailed him.

 

The flustered woodcutter dropped his ax. "Hush! I am a poor, ignorant man unable even to feed or clothe myself."

 

"Why, then, do you sing about immortals?" Monkey asked him.

 

The woodcutter laughed: "Oh, that. A neighbor of mine, an immortal as it happens, taught the song to me, to cheer me up when life was getting me down. A moment ago, I started worrying about something, so I sang it. I didn't know anyone was listening."

 

"Why don't you become his disciple? You could learn the secret of eternal life."

 

"I've not had an easy life," the woodcutter explained. "My father died when I was seven or eight. I'm an only child, and have been my mother's sole support ever since. And now that she's getting old, she needs me all the more. All we have is the rice and tea I get in exchange for my firewood. I can't abandon her for a religious life."

 

"Well, I'm sure you will be rewarded in later life for your filial devotion. In the meantime, though, could you point the way to the immortal's house, so that I can pay him a visit?"

 

"It's not far. This is Heart and Soul Mountain. About seven or eight miles to the south, you'll come to the Cave of the Tilted Moon and Three Stars, the home of an immortal called Subodhi, who has trained many disciples, and currently has thirty or forty studying under him."

 

Monkey tugged at the woodcutter. "Come with me! You won't regret it."

 

"Did you not listen to anything I said just now?" he answered, exasperated. "I've wood to chop. On your way now."

 

So Monkey left the woodcutter and found the path to the south. After seven or eight miles, a heavenly cave dwelling came into sight, shrouded in mists and light, framed by an emerald-green forest of bamboo and cypress and by moss-covered hanging cliffs. Cranes, phoenixes, apes, deer, lions, and elephants roamed about. The entrance was tightly sealed and the place seemed uninhabited, but a huge stone slab-thirty feet long by eight feet wide-told Monkey that the woodcutter had spoken the truth: the cave of the tilted moon and three stars, heart and soul mountain. Not daring to knock, Monkey loitered on a nearby pine, nibbling some nuts.

 

After a very short while, the door creaked open and a young immortal of exceptionally refined looks emerged. He wore a robe with loose, billowing sleeves; his hair was bound with silk cords. "Who's making all that noise?"

 

Jumping down from the tree, Monkey bowed. "I didn't mean to disturb you. I'm here to learn the secret of eternal life."

 

"You seek the Way, you say?" The young man smiled. "Our master just told me to look outside the front door for a new student."

 

"That would be me!" exclaimed Monkey.

 

"Come on, then," the young man said, ushering him inside.

 

Monkey followed the youth deep into the cave, past story upon story and row upon row of jeweled pavilions, towers, and arches, until they reached the foot of a jade platform, on top of which sat Subodhi, the famous Patriarch of the West; thirty trainee immortals sat on the ground below. "Master!" Monkey gasped, launching into a frenzy of kowtows.

 

"Tell me your name and where you're from," Subodhi asked, "before you smash your head beyond repair."

 

"I come from Water-Curtain Cave on Flower-Fruit Mountain in the land of Aolai on the eastern continent."

 

"Throw him out!" Subodhi roared. "Liars can't learn enlightenment! Two oceans and the southern continent lie between here and Aolai."

 

Monkey resumed his kowtowing, this time at double speed. "It's true!" he protested. "My journey here took more than ten years."

 

"Hmpf," conceded Subodhi. "That sounds about right. So what's your name? Who were your parents?"

 

"I have no parents," Monkey replied.

 

"Were you born from a tree, then?"

 

"All I can remember is an immortal rock on Flower-Fruit Mountain. One year, it split open, and there I was."

 

"I see," considered Subodhi, hiding his delight at this revelation. "So you were born of heaven and earth. Get up and walk about, so I can look at you." Monkey scampered this way and that. "You're not exactly classically handsome," Subodhi said, laughing, "but you look exactly as a monkey reared on fruit and nuts ought to. I'll give you a surname: Sun. Written one way, it means monkey. But I'll drop the animal radical, leaving us with the Sun that means child."

 

Monkey burbled with glee. "A surname! I've got a surname! But can I have a given name also, so that you can easily call me hither and thither?"

 

"The given names of my disciples rotate within a cycle of twelve characters."

 

"And those twelve characters are?"

 

"Broad, guang; great, da; wise, zhi; intelligent, hui; true, zhen; obedient, ru; of nature, xing; of the sea, hai; outstanding, ying; awoken, wu; rounded, yuan; enlightened, jue. As you fall into the tenth, 'awoken,' wu, I will call you Sun Wukong: Sun-who-has-awoken-to-emptiness. Happy with that?"

 

"Sun Wukong!" Monkey chortled. "I love it!"

 

The name spoke an important truth: for at the beginning of everything, there were no names-only emptiness. To advance from emptiness, living creatures must first become aware of it.

 

And if you wish to know what Monkey learned next, you must read on.

 

Chapter Two

 

While Monkey pranced delightedly about, Subodhi ordered the congregation to take him away and teach him some basic rules of hygiene and etiquette. The disciples found Monkey a place in the corridor where he could sleep, and the following morning he began to learn from his fellow students how to speak and behave. Day in, day out, they discussed scriptures and doctrines; he practiced calligraphy and burned incense. In his spare time, he swept the ground and weeded the gardens, tended to the trees and flowers, gathered wood and lit fires, and fetched water and carried drinks. Six or seven perfectly contented years slipped by. Eventually, Subodhi climbed back onto his rostrum and summoned his immortals for a lecture on doctrine: a synthesis of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

Copyright © 2021 by Wu Cheng'en. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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Wu Cheng'en (c. 1505-1580) was a Ming Dynasty poet about whom little is known, although he is believed to be the author of Journey to the West, which he published anonymously. He lived much of his life as a hermit. View titles by Wu Cheng'en

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    Sep 29, 2009
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    Pride and Prejudice
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Jane Austen, Ruben Toledo
    978-0-14-310542-8
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
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    Aug 25, 2009
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    Wuthering Heights
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Emily Bronte, Ruben Toledo
    978-0-14-310543-5
    $18.00 US
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    Aug 25, 2009
  • The Scarlet Letter
    The Scarlet Letter
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ruben Toledo
    978-0-14-310544-2
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Aug 25, 2009
  • The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
    The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    John Steinbeck
    978-0-14-310577-0
    $33.00 US
    Paperback
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    Jul 08, 2009
  • The Art of War
    The Art of War
    The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life
    Sun-tzu
    978-0-14-310575-6
    $15.00 US
    Paperback
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    Apr 28, 2009
  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
    Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
    Ryunosuke Akutagawa
    978-0-14-044970-9
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
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    Mar 03, 2009
  • War and Peace
    War and Peace
    Leo Tolstoy
    978-0-14-044793-4
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
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    Feb 24, 2009
  • Candide
    Candide
    Or Optimism
    Francois Voltaire
    978-0-14-045510-6
    $13.00 US
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    Feb 24, 2009
  • The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
    The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    John Steinbeck
    978-0-14-310545-9
    $20.00 US
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    Dec 30, 2008
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Cambridge Lawrence Edition
    D. H. Lawrence
    978-0-14-144149-8
    $15.00 US
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    Nov 25, 2008
  • The Stone Diaries
    The Stone Diaries
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Carol Shields
    978-0-14-310550-3
    $18.00 US
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    Sep 30, 2008
  • On the Road: the Original Scroll
    On the Road: the Original Scroll
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Jack Kerouac
    978-0-14-310546-6
    $18.00 US
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    Aug 26, 2008
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    Metamorphosis and Other Stories
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Franz Kafka
    978-0-14-310524-4
    $17.00 US
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    Feb 26, 2008
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    Frankenstein
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Mary Shelley, Daniel Clowes
    978-0-14-310503-9
    $17.00 US
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    Sep 25, 2007
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    The Three Musketeers
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Alexandre Dumas, Tom Gauld
    978-0-14-310500-8
    $21.00 US
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    Aug 28, 2007
  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead
    The Tibetan Book of the Dead
    First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    978-0-14-310494-0
    $25.00 US
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    Jan 30, 2007
  • Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    Dual-Language Edition
    Pablo Neruda
    978-0-14-303996-9
    $14.00 US
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    Dec 26, 2006
  • No Longer Human
    No Longer Human
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Osamu Dazai
    978-0-14-313750-4
    $16.00 US
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    Jun 13, 2023
  • To the Lighthouse
    To the Lighthouse
    Virginia Woolf
    978-0-14-313757-3
    $28.00 US
    Hardcover
    Penguin Classics
    May 02, 2023
  • The Custom of the Country
    The Custom of the Country
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Edith Wharton
    978-0-14-313721-4
    $18.00 US
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    Nov 15, 2022
  • The Sun Also Rises
    The Sun Also Rises
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Ernest Hemingway
    978-0-14-313677-4
    $18.00 US
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    Jan 04, 2022
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    The Great Gatsby
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    978-0-14-313612-5
    $18.00 US
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    Jan 05, 2021
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    Mrs. Dalloway
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Virginia Woolf
    978-0-14-313613-2
    $16.00 US
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    Jan 05, 2021
  • Tao Te Ching
    Tao Te Ching
    The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Lao Tzu
    978-0-14-313380-3
    $18.00 US
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    Nov 12, 2019
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    Anne of Green Gables
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    L. M. Montgomery
    978-0-14-313185-4
    $19.00 US
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    Nov 14, 2017
  • The Wonderful O
    The Wonderful O
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    James Thurber, Marc Simont
    978-0-14-313042-0
    $20.00 US
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    Jun 06, 2017
  • The African Trilogy
    The African Trilogy
    Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease
    Chinua Achebe
    978-0-14-313134-2
    $25.00 US
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    May 02, 2017
  • Presence: Collected Stories
    Presence: Collected Stories
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Arthur Miller
    978-0-14-310847-4
    $25.00 US
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    Nov 22, 2016
  • Collected Essays
    Collected Essays
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Arthur Miller
    978-0-14-310849-8
    $35.00 US
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    Nov 22, 2016
  • Lord of the Flies
    Lord of the Flies
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    William Golding
    978-0-14-312940-0
    $17.00 US
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    Nov 15, 2016
  • The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
    The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
    (Penguin Orange Collection)
    H. P. Lovecraft
    978-0-14-312945-5
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
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    Oct 18, 2016
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    (Penguin Orange Collection)
    Ken Kesey
    978-0-14-312951-6
    $18.00 US
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    Oct 18, 2016
  • The Haunting of Hill House
    The Haunting of Hill House
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Shirley Jackson
    978-0-14-312937-0
    $18.00 US
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    Sep 27, 2016
  • The 13 Clocks
    The 13 Clocks
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    James Thurber, Marc Simont
    978-0-14-311014-9
    $16.00 US
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    Aug 02, 2016
  • Storm of Steel
    Storm of Steel
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Ernst Junger, Neil Gower
    978-0-14-310825-2
    $19.00 US
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    May 31, 2016
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    James Joyce, Roman Muradov
    978-0-14-310824-5
    $18.00 US
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    May 24, 2016
  • The Master and Margarita
    The Master and Margarita
    50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Mikhail Bulgakov, Christopher Conn Askew
    978-0-14-310827-6
    $18.00 US
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    May 03, 2016
  • I Ching
    I Ching
    The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Oracle and Book of Wisdom (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    978-0-14-310692-0
    $30.00 US
    Paperback
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    Dec 01, 2015
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Novels
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    978-0-14-310713-2
    $25.00 US
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    Nov 24, 2015
  • Middlemarch
    Middlemarch
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    George Eliot
    978-0-14-310772-9
    $18.00 US
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    Nov 17, 2015
  • The Liars' Club
    The Liars' Club
    A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Mary Karr, Brian Rea
    978-0-14-310779-8
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Nov 10, 2015
  • The Penguin Arthur Miller
    The Penguin Arthur Miller
    Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Arthur Miller
    978-0-14-310777-4
    $35.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Oct 13, 2015
  • Emma
    Emma
    200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Jane Austen
    978-0-14-310771-2
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Sep 29, 2015
  • The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
    The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Robert Frost
    978-0-14-310739-2
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
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    Aug 18, 2015
  • Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Zohar Lazar
    978-0-14-310763-7
    $20.00 US
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    Jul 14, 2015
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
    150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel
    978-0-14-310762-0
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Jul 07, 2015
  • The Bloody Chamber
    The Bloody Chamber
    And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Angela Carter
    978-0-14-310761-3
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    May 26, 2015
  • The Histories
    The Histories
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Herodotus
    978-0-14-310754-5
    $25.00 US
    Paperback
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    May 19, 2015
  • Herzog
    Herzog
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Saul Bellow
    978-0-14-310767-5
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
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    May 12, 2015
  • Les Miserables
    Les Miserables
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Victor Hugo, Jillian Tamaki
    978-0-14-310756-9
    $27.00 US
    Paperback
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    Feb 24, 2015
  • Dubliners
    Dubliners
    Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    James Joyce, Roman Muradov
    978-0-14-310745-3
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
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    May 27, 2014
  • Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
    Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
    A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    978-0-14-310729-3
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
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    Oct 29, 2013
  • Fear of Flying
    Fear of Flying
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Erica Jong, Noma Bar
    978-0-14-310735-4
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
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    Sep 24, 2013
  • Faces of Love
    Faces of Love
    Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Jahan Malek Khatun, Obayd-e Zakani, Hafez
    978-0-14-310728-6
    $20.00 US
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    Aug 27, 2013
  • Appointment in Samarra
    Appointment in Samarra
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    John O'Hara, Neil Gower
    978-0-14-310707-1
    $17.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
    Apr 30, 2013
  • The Collected Poems
    The Collected Poems
    A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Marcel Proust
    978-0-14-310690-6
    $30.00 US
    Paperback
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    Mar 26, 2013
  • The Divine Comedy
    The Divine Comedy
    Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Dante Alighieri, Eric Drooker
    978-0-14-310719-4
    $28.00 US
    Paperback
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    Feb 26, 2013
  • The Book of Common Prayer
    The Book of Common Prayer
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    978-0-14-310656-2
    $22.00 US
    Paperback
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    Oct 30, 2012
  • The Death of King Arthur
    The Death of King Arthur
    The Immortal Legend (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Thomas Malory, Stuart Kolakovic
    978-0-14-310695-1
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Oct 30, 2012
  • Travels with Charley in Search of America
    Travels with Charley in Search of America
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    John Steinbeck
    978-0-14-310700-2
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Oct 02, 2012
  • Heart of Darkness
    Heart of Darkness
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Joseph Conrad, Mike Mignola
    978-0-14-310658-6
    $15.00 US
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    Aug 28, 2012
  • The Wizard of Oz
    The Wizard of Oz
    And Other Wonderful Books of Oz: The Emerald City of Oz and Glinda of Oz (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    L. Frank Baum, Rachell Sumpter
    978-0-14-310663-0
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Apr 24, 2012
  • The Wind in the Willows
    The Wind in the Willows
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Kenneth Grahame, Rachell Sumpter
    978-0-14-310664-7
    $18.00 US
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    Apr 24, 2012
  • Little Women
    Little Women
    150th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Louisa May Alcott
    978-0-14-310665-4
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
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    Apr 24, 2012
  • The Greek Myths
    The Greek Myths
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Robert Graves, Ross Macdonald
    978-0-14-310671-5
    $27.00 US
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    Apr 24, 2012
  • Three Novels of New York
    Three Novels of New York
    The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Edith Wharton, Richard Gray
    978-0-14-310655-5
    $25.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Feb 29, 2012
  • Titanic, First Accounts
    Titanic, First Accounts
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Various
    978-0-14-310662-3
    $18.00 US
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    Feb 28, 2012
  • Kama Sutra
    Kama Sutra
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Vatsyayana, Malika Favre
    978-0-14-310659-3
    $18.00 US
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    Jan 31, 2012
  • The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jillian Tamaki
    978-0-14-310645-6
    $18.00 US
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    Oct 25, 2011
  • Black Beauty
    Black Beauty
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Anna Sewell, Jillian Tamaki
    978-0-14-310647-0
    $18.00 US
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    Oct 25, 2011
  • Sense and Sensibility
    Sense and Sensibility
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Jane Austen
    978-0-14-310652-4
    $17.00 US
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    Oct 25, 2011
  • Emma
    Emma
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Jane Austen, Jillian Tamaki
    978-1-101-65958-8
    $13.99 US
    Ebook
    Penguin Classics
    Oct 25, 2011
  • Madame Bovary
    Madame Bovary
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Gustave Flaubert
    978-0-14-310649-4
    $17.00 US
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    Oct 04, 2011
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Roald Dahl, Ivan Brunetti, Joseph Schindelman
    978-0-14-310633-3
    $17.00 US
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    Aug 30, 2011
  • James and the Giant Peach
    James and the Giant Peach
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Roald Dahl, Jordan Crane, Nancy Ekholm Burkert
    978-0-14-310634-0
    $16.00 US
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    Aug 30, 2011
  • Persuasion
    Persuasion
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Jane Austen
    978-0-14-310628-9
    $17.00 US
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    Jun 28, 2011
  • The Communist Manifesto
    The Communist Manifesto
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Killoffer
    978-0-14-310626-5
    $15.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Mar 01, 2011
  • Great Expectations
    Great Expectations
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Charles Dickens, Tom Haugomat
    978-0-14-310627-2
    $16.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
    Dec 28, 2010
  • The Aeneid
    The Aeneid
    Virgil
    978-0-14-310629-6
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
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    Dec 28, 2010
  • Jane Eyre
    Jane Eyre
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Charlotte Bronte, Ruben Toledo
    978-0-14-310615-9
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Nov 30, 2010
  • Dracula
    Dracula
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Bram Stoker, Ruben Toledo
    978-0-14-310616-6
    $17.00 US
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    Nov 30, 2010
  • The Canterbury Tales
    The Canterbury Tales
    A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Geoffrey Chaucer, Ted Stearn
    978-0-14-310617-3
    $22.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Nov 02, 2010
  • Keith Haring Journals
    Keith Haring Journals
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Keith Haring
    978-0-14-310597-8
    $21.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Jan 26, 2010
  • The Bronte Sisters
    The Bronte Sisters
    Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte
    978-0-14-310583-1
    $25.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Dec 29, 2009
  • White Noise
    White Noise
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Don DeLillo
    978-0-14-310598-5
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
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    Dec 29, 2009
  • The Prince
    The Prince
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    978-0-14-310586-2
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
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    Nov 24, 2009
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Mark Twain, Lilli Carre
    978-0-14-310594-7
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Oct 27, 2009
  • Moby-Dick
    Moby-Dick
    or, The Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Herman Melville, Tony Millionaire
    978-0-14-310595-4
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Oct 27, 2009
  • Revolutionary Suicide
    Revolutionary Suicide
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Huey P. Newton, Ho Che Anderson
    978-0-14-310532-9
    $18.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
    Sep 29, 2009
  • The Qur'an
    The Qur'an
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    978-0-14-310588-6
    $23.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Sep 29, 2009
  • Pride and Prejudice
    Pride and Prejudice
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Jane Austen, Ruben Toledo
    978-0-14-310542-8
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Aug 25, 2009
  • Wuthering Heights
    Wuthering Heights
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Emily Bronte, Ruben Toledo
    978-0-14-310543-5
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Aug 25, 2009
  • The Scarlet Letter
    The Scarlet Letter
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ruben Toledo
    978-0-14-310544-2
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Aug 25, 2009
  • The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
    The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    John Steinbeck
    978-0-14-310577-0
    $33.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Jul 08, 2009
  • The Art of War
    The Art of War
    The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life
    Sun-tzu
    978-0-14-310575-6
    $15.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Apr 28, 2009
  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
    Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
    Ryunosuke Akutagawa
    978-0-14-044970-9
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Mar 03, 2009
  • War and Peace
    War and Peace
    Leo Tolstoy
    978-0-14-044793-4
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
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    Feb 24, 2009
  • Candide
    Candide
    Or Optimism
    Francois Voltaire
    978-0-14-045510-6
    $13.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Feb 24, 2009
  • The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
    The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    John Steinbeck
    978-0-14-310545-9
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Dec 30, 2008
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Cambridge Lawrence Edition
    D. H. Lawrence
    978-0-14-144149-8
    $15.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Nov 25, 2008
  • The Stone Diaries
    The Stone Diaries
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Carol Shields
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