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.
Children's literature
In 1883, Carlo Collodi wrote the first Italian fantasy novel, "The Adventures of Pinocchio", which was translated many times. In that same year, Emilio Salgari, the man who would become "the adventure writer par excellence for the young in Italy" first published his legendary character "Sandokan". In Britain, "The Princess and the Goblin" and its sequel "The Princess and Curdie", by George MacDonald, appeared in 1872 and 1883, and the adventure stories "Treasure Island" and "Kidnapped", both by Robert Louis Stevenson, were extremely popular in the 1880s. Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" was first published in 1894, and J. M. Barrie told the story of Peter Pan in the novel "Peter and Wendy" in 1911. Johanna Spyri's two-part novel "Heidi" was published in Switzerland in 1880 and 1881. In the US, children's publishing entered a period of growth after the American Civil War in 1865. Boys' book writer Oliver Optic published over 100 books. In 1868, the "epoch-making book" "Little Women", the fictionalized autobiography of Louisa May Alcott, was published. This "coming of age" story established the genre of realistic family books in the United States. Mark Twain released "Tom Sawyer" in 1876, and in 1880 another bestseller, "", a collection of African American folk tales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, appeared.