喻世明言

Forty stories, the first of Feng Menglong's Three Words, gathering Song and Yuan storytellers' tales and Ming imitations. Jiang Xingge's pearl shirt, honest officials and quarrelling friends give a wide view of ordinary life. 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 describing sexual acts involving children; 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.