The Journey to the West Books 1 2 and 3

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book contains the full text of the first three stories in our best-selling </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Journey to the West </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>series for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here - </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Rise of the Monkey King</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Trouble in Heaven</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Immortal Peaches</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>These three stories all focus on the adventures of Sun Wukong the Handsome Monkey King one of the most famous characters in Chinese literature and culture. His legendary bravery his foolish mistakes his sharp-tongued commentary and his yearning for immortality and spiritual knowledge have inspired hundreds of books television shows graphic novels video games and films.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The full story of Sun Wukong's adventures is told in Journey to the West an epic 2000 page novel written in the 16th Century by Wu Cheng'en. Journey to the West is probably the most famous and best-loved novel in China and is considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The story is written as much as possible using the 600-word vocabulary of HSK3. It is presented in Simplified Chinese characters and pinyin and includes an English version and complete glossary.  A free audiobook is available on YouTube's Imagin8 Press channel and on our website www.imagin8press.com.</span></p>