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Traces of the Flower and the Moon, Volume 2
Traces of the Flower and the Moon (花月痕)
Two scholars, two courtesans, two fates: Wei Chizhu and Liu Qiuhen, poor and sick, love with doomed devotion, while Han Hesheng and Du Caiqiu rise to wealth and glory during the Taiping wars. Traces of the Flower and the Moon is the most famous tearful romance of the nineteenth century, full of poems, letters and moonlit partings. This second volume follows their parting fates through war and illness to the end. This complete new English translation is published in two volumes; this is Volume 2 of 2, and the whole set is also available as a bundle. Like the best scholar-and-beauty novels it moves quickly, with disguises, poems exchanged in secret, examinations, villains and a hard-won happy ending. These romances were the popular reading of their day, devoured by young men and women, imitated on the stage and admired abroad, and they remain charming, quick and surprising.
