聊齋誌異
By 蒲松齡
Cover: Visiting Pu on a Snowy Night by Liu Jun (劉俊, active 15th century) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Pu Songling's strange tales of fox spirits, ghosts, scholars and lovers, told in a limpid literary style and sprinkled with sharp comment on corrupt officials. Beautiful fox women and honest men who fall in love with them are the collection's favourite figures. 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 book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.