初刻拍案驚奇
Credits: 凌濛初 (author)
Summary
Ling Mengchu's first collection of forty tales, which opens with the luckless merchant who makes a fortune from a basket of oranges. Strange and comic happenings among merchants, scholars and wives fill each short chapter. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This edition omits one or more passages of explicit sexual description; each omission is marked in the text. This edition omits one or more passages describing sexual acts involving children; each omission is marked in the text. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.
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