The Book of Swindles
Selections from a Late Ming Collection
The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle.
Specificaties
| ISBN/EAN | 9780231178624 |
| Auteur | Yingyu Zhang |
| Uitgever | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
| Taal | Engels |
| Uitvoering | Gebonden in harde band |
| Pagina's | 272 |
| Lengte | 216.0 mm |
| Breedte | 142.0 mm |