Fiction of Gay Interest

Dream of the Red Chamber
Tsao Hsueh-chin (Cao Xueqin)
Publisher: Anchor / Doubleday
New York, NY, USA

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Cover / size: paperback / h 17.6 cm * w 10.4 cm / 329 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: 0385093799

Arbery Ref:   000402

Condition Good

[date given as 1958, but actual printing probably ca 1998] Slight wear / soiling indentations to cover and page and spine edges. Pencil inscriptions to front flyleaf and red stamp to endpaper.

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Tsao: Dream of the Red Chamber


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Plot / Content:                              Rating: g / S

Eighteenth century novel, also known as (also Red Chamber Dream, Hung Lou Meng or A Dream of Red Mansions), depicting the lives of two neighbouring households in Peking. Mostly heterosexual , but occasional gay incidents, including description of schoolboy intrigues in Chapter Eight.



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"The proverb says well 'The dragon sires a brood of nine - each different from the rest.' And so the boys in the school were of all sorts and varieties, though they were all members or relatives of the Chia clan. Hsueh Pan, for instance, became a student there soon after his arrival in the Capital. He went there, of course, not because of his thirst for learning but because of the prospects of finding a few Prince Lung-Yangs among the students. Nor was he disappointed. He soon succeeded in corrupting not a few boys with his money and his lavish presents. For a time, his favorites were two boys nicknamed Lovely Jade and Adorable Perfume. Many other students also had their eyes on these two youths, but they were afraid of Hsueh Pan and left them more or less alone."

from chapter eight




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