The Tale of Kieu by Alexander Barton Woodside, Nguyễn Du, Huỳnh Sanh Thông

216 pages first pub 1820 (editions)

fiction classics poetry emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thông’s new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is i...

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