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Book Title: Monkey and the Monk : an Abridgment of the JOURNEY to the West
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 1.2in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Anthony C. Yu
Format: Perfect
Language: English
Topic: Classics, Asian / Chinese, Fantasy / Epic
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 26.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 528 Pages
