Journey to the West
Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. In English-speaking countries, "Monkey", Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation is well known.
Howard Clarke
Clarke is the author of "The Gospel of Matthew and Its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel" (Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2003). He has also authored "The Art of the Odyssey" (Prentice-Hall, 1967; rpt. Duckworth, 19940); "Homer's Readers: A Historical Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey" (University of Delaware Press, 1981), he has translated from the Polish "The Return of Odysseus" by Stanisław Wyspiański (Indiana University Press, 1966); and he has edited "Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Odyssey" (Prentice-Hall, 1983) and "Vergil's Aeneid in the Dryden Translation" (Penn State Press, 1987). He was a sergeant in the Army Security Agency in Berlin (1953–56). Since 1993 he has been working as a Destination Lecturer on cruise ships operating in the Mediterranean area.