The Story of the Stone, Volume 3: The Warning Voice
| Translated by | David Hawkes |
| Publisher | Penguin Classics |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | England |
| Copyright | 1980 |
| Pages / Font | 640 pages / Monotype Garamond |
| ISBN | 9780140443707 |
| Barcode | 9780140443707 |
| Chapters | Note on Spelling Preface Chapter 54: Lady Jia ridicules the cliches of romantic fiction; And Wang Xi-feng emulates the filifal antics of Lao Lia-zi Chapter 55: A foolish concubine seeks to humiliate her own daughter; And an ill-natured stewardess tries to outwit her young mistress Chapter 56: Resourceful Tan-chun abolilshes abuses in the interests of econoomy; And sapient Bao-chai shows how small consessions can be made without loss of dignity Chapter 57: Nightengale tests Jade Boy with a startling message; And Aunt Xue comforts Frowner with words of loving kindness Chapter 58: In which the cock-bird who mourns his mate is found to be a hen; And a true heart is able to sympathize with a strange kind of love Chapter 59: By Willow Walk the conververs of property resort to violence and abuse; And at Green Delights the defenders of law and order invoke a higher authority Chapter 60: As a substiture for rose-orris Jia Huan is given jasmine face-powder; And in return for rose essence Cook Liu is given lycoperdon snow Chapter 61: Bao-yu owns up to a crime he did not commit; And Patience bends authority in order that the innocent may be spared Chapter 62: A tipsy Xiang-yun sleeps on a peony-petal pillow; And a grateful Caltrop unfastens her pomegranate skirt Chapter 63: Flower-maidens combine for nocturnal birthday revels; And a grass widow copes with funeral arrangments single-handed Chapter 64: Five fair women make subjects for a chaste maid’s verse; And nine jade dragons make a love-gift for a flirt Chapter 65: Jia Lian’s second marriage is celebrated in secret; And the future marriage of San-jie becomes a matter of speculation Chapter 66: Shame drives a warm-hearted young woman to take her life; And shock leads a cold-hearted young gentleman to renounce the world Chapter 67: Frowner sees something that makes her homesick; And Xi-feng hears something that rouses her suspicions Chapter 68: Er-jie takes up residence in Prospect Garden; And Xi-feng makes a disturbance in Ning-guo House Chapter 69: A scheming woman kills with a borrowed knife; And one who has ceased to hope swallows gold and dies Chapter 70: Lin Dai-yu resuscitates the Poetry Club; And Shi Xiang-yun tries her hand at a song lyric Chapter 71: Lady Xing deliberately humiliates her daughter-in-law; And Faithful inadvertently iterrupts a pair of love-birds Chapter 72: Wang Xi-fen refuses to see a doctor; And Brightie’s wife seeks help with a betrothal Chapter 73: A half-witted servant girl picks up a highly embarrassing object; And an easy-going young mistress refuses to inquire into a theft Chapter 74: Lady Wang authorizes a raid on Prospect Garden; And Jia Xi-chun breaks off relations with Ning-guo House Chapter 75: Midnight revellers are startled by a sound of evil omen; And Mid-Autumn moon-watchers listen to quantrains of unequal merit Chapter 76: Flute-playing at Convex Pavillion provokes too much melancholy; And linked verses at Concave Pavilion betray a morbid sensitivity Chapter 77: A wronged maid takes a loving last leave of her master; And three young actresses seek to escape matrimony in the cloister Chapter 78: Jia Zheng commissions the Ballad of the Winsome Colonel; And Bao-yu composes an Invocation to the Hibiscus Spirit Chapter 79: Xue Pan finds to his sorrow that he is married to a termagant; And Ying-chun’s parents betroth her to a Zhong-shan wolf Chapter 80: Unfortunate Caltrop is battered by a philandering husband; And One Plaster Wang presribes for an insufferavle wife Appendix I: Sandal, Musk, and Skybright Appendix II: Suncloud, Sunset and Moonrise Appendix III: You San-jie, Liu Xiang-lian and Jia Lian’s Journeys Appendix IV: Old Mrs. You and the Zhangs Appendix V: Fivey, Bao Er and The Mattress Appendix VI: Euergesia and the Little Actresses Characters in Volume 3 Genealogical Tables |
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