The Story of the Stone: The golden days
- ISBN-10
- 0140442936
- ISBN-13
- 9780140442939
- Series
- The Story of the Stone
- Category
- Fiction / Literary
- Pages
- 540
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Authors
- Cao Xueqin, John Minford
Description
Buddhist philosophy and the experiences of the author's own family underlie this eighteenth-century novel of a Chinese family's declining fortunes
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