Stories about the extraordinary

For three centuries in any Chinese book shop you can find a collection of stories Pu Sun-Lina, in which amazing stories await the reader: about werewolf foxes, about sorcerers and ghosts, about strange animals, cursed mirrors, talking birds, and about many , much more. In fact, the books of Pu Sun-Lina have long stepped over the boundaries of China, and now they are read around the world in all the main languages. Their author was a scientist of Confucian upbringing and, strictly speaking, he was not at all in the fit of stories containing all kinds of miracles and erotic motifs. However, Pu Song-Lin became famous for such books, becoming the most famous Chinese writer of his time. The soil for his work was folk parables, but over time, the author’s stories themselves turned into folklore and were transmitted from the mouth to the mouth with simple storytellers.
This publication publishes all four collections of the stories of Pu Song-Lina, published in Russian, in remarkable translations of the Chitaist philologist Vasily Mikhailovich Alekseev with detailed notes and original Chinese engravings