The Love Pagoda
- ISBN-10
- 0881843091
- ISBN-13
- 9780881843095
- Category
- Chinese fiction
- Pages
- 238
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Pub
- Author
- Anonymous
Description
In spite of the Manchu government's forbidding it to be sold or read aloud in China, this masterwork was read by millions who risked banishment or floggings to share in the wondrous sexual delights offered by this true classic of the erotic imagination.
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