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Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures

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Songling Pu's Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures is a mythic fiction and ghost story story collection.

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About Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures

"Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures" by Pu Songling is a collection of Classical Chinese stories written over forty years from the late 1600s to early 1700s. This anthology contains nearly 500 tales blending the supernatural with everyday reality, exploring passionate emotional entanglements between humans and otherworldly beings. These marvel tales blur boundaries between realms through vivid detail, using ghosts, foxes, and demons to implicitly critique societal problems. The work circulated in manuscript form during the author's lifetime and became China's most acclaimed supernatural collection since the Ming dynasty.
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Who wrote Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures?

Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures was written by Songling Pu.

What genre is Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures?

It is usually shelved as Myth & Legend Fiction, Ghost Stories and Fairy Tales & Folklore.

Is Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures free to read?

Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

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Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 2 h 26 min.

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