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 | 9780231178631 |
| Auteur | Yingyu Zhang |
| Uitgever | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
| Taal | Engels |
| Uitvoering | Paperback / gebrocheerd |
| Pagina's | 208 |
| Lengte | 215.0 mm |
| Breedte | 139.0 mm |