I've seen "The Water Margin" described as the Chinese Robin Hood, in that its heroes fight for justice by departing from the ordinary...

I'm ordinarily a very fast reader. On the other hand, it took me about nine and a half months to finish this. Hoo boy, am I stuffed....

Yet another in the long list of candidates for The First Novel, which also includes such notables as Don Quixote, The Tale Of Genji,...

Not to be confused with Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis," which deals with a single human transformed into a huge vermin for no identifiable...

When I was a kid, everybody knew about these stories. We saw them on filmstrips in class, we had them as bedtime stories at night, we...