Category: Historical Novels
[Transcriber's Note: This book was published as Chinese Love Tales in 1935 (translated from the original of George Souile De Morant --a variation in the spelling of the middle name) with numerous illustrations by Valenti Angelo. It was attacked and acquitted in the courts, win...
Early in the morning, he put some pieces of silver in his sleeve and hastened to a little wine booth, not far from the house of P'an. He knew that he would find an old woman the...
4. Chapter 4"The ancient woman Wang lives, as you know, quite close at hand. She has helped more than a hundred children into the world. She can sew, and she can act as go-between; but she...
3. Chapter 3She rose softly, opened her cabin door without sound and went up on to the bridge. Ya-nei was standing on the other ship, and immediately leaped to her side, and boldly took her...
2. Chapter 2Sun saw that celestial beauty, that incantation; he scented that perfume; and his soul boiled over. For a long moment he gazed, and his spirit was as if submerged. But he recove...
1. Chapter 1[Transcriber's Note: This book was published as Chinese Love Tales in 1935 (translated from the original of George Souile De Morant --a variation in the spelling of the middle n...
7. Chapter 7The bonzes had some thought of resisting; but they had no weapons and were outnumbered. The only ones left free were an old man who kindled the incense, and the two little novic...
6. Chapter 6"I used to mingle with the women, and by degrees, according to the licentiousness of their thought, we would enjoy our pleasure. Soon the women found that they had no more occas...
8. Chapter 8This answer had to be sufficient. The nurse was in terror, and watched the approaches of the room all night for fear lest anybody should hear the rapturous exclamation of the lo...