Monkey King

<p><b>One of the world''s greatest fantasy novels, </b><b>and a timeless classic of Chinese literature<br></b><br>One of China''s Four Great Classical Novels, <i>Monkey King</i> was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng''en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk''s quest for Buddhist scriptures, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu Monkey King called Sun Wukong; a rice-loving divine pig; and a depressive man-eating river-sand monster.<br><br>Comparable to <i>The Canterbury Tales</i> or <i>Don Quixote</i>, the tale is at once a comic adventure story, a humorous satire of Chinese bureaucracy, a spring of spiritual insight and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeys towards enlightenment.</p>