《A Dream of Red Mansions》

CHAPTER 41 Pao-yu Sips Tea in Green Lattice Nunnery Granny Liu Succumbs to Wine in Happy Red Court1

CHAPTER 42 The Lady of the Alpinia Warns Against Dubious Tastes in Literature The Queen of Bamboo's Quips Add to the General Enjoyment15

CHAPTER 43 To Kill Time Money Is Raised to Celebrate a Birthday Incense Is Burned on the Ground to Undying Love31

CHAPTER 44 Hsi-feng,Taken by Surprise,Gives Way to Jealousy Ping-erh,Unexpectedly Gratified,Makes Her Toilet45

CHAPTER 45 Two Girls Pledge Friendship After a Heart-to-Heart Talk A Plaintive Poem Is Written One Windy,Rainy Evening60

CHAPTER 46 An Old Reprobate Makes an Unseemly Proposal Yuan-yang Vows Never to Marry76

CHAPTER 47 A Stupid Bully Is Beaten Up for His Amorous Advances A Cool Young Gentleman Leaves Home for Fear of Reprisals93

CHAPTER 48 A Rebuffed Reprobate Decides on a Journey An Aspiring Maid Racks Her Brains to Write Poetry109

CHAPTER 49 White Snow and Red Plum-Blossom Make the Garden Entrancing Girls Enjoy Rustic Fare at a Venison Barbecue124

CHAPTER 50 In Reed Snow Cottage Girls Vie in Composing a Collective Poem In Warm Scented Arbour Fine Lantern Riddles Are Made140

CHAPTER 51 Pao-chin Composes Poems Recalling the Past An Incompetent Physician Prescribes Strong Medicine169

CHAPTER 52 Tactful Ping-erh Conceals the Theft of Her Gold Bracelet Plucky Ching-wen Mends a Peacock-Feather Cape in Bed176

CHAPTER 53 Ancestral Sacrifice Is Carried Out on New Year's Eve in the Ning Mansion An Evening Banquet Is Held on the Feast of Lanterns in the Jung Mansion193

CHAPTER 54 The Lady Dowager Debunks Trite Stories Hsi-feng Clowns to Amuse Her Elders212

CHAPTER 55 A Stupid Concubine Insults Her Own Daughter in a Futile Squabble A Spiteful Servant Imposes upon Her Young Mistress231

CHAPTER 56 Clever Tan-chun Devises a Scheme to Make a Profit and End Abuses Understanding Pao-chai Rounds It Out with a Small Act of Kindness248

CHAPTER 57 Artful Tzu-chuan Tests Pao-yu's Feelings Kindly Aunt Hsueh Camforts Tai-yu266

CHAPTER 58 Under the Shade of an Apricot Tree an Actress Mourns Her Stage Lover The Master of Happy Red Court Sympathizes with the Girl's Infatuation289

CHAPTER 59 Ying-erh and Chun-yen Are Scolded by Willow Bank And Red Rue Studio Sends for Reinforcements305

CHAPTER 60 Jasmine Powder Is Substituted for Rose-Nitric Powder Rose Flavoured Juice Is Repaid with Pachyma Cocos316

CHAPTER 61 Pao-yu Covers Up a Girl's Theft to Protect His Sister Ping-erh Wields Authority to Right a Wrong333

CHAPTER 62 Sweet Hsiang-yun Sleeps Tipsily Among Peonies Silly Hsiang-ling Coyly Takes Off Her Pomegranate Skirt348

CHAPTER 63 Girls Feast at Night to Celebrate Pao-yu's Birthday Chia Ching Dies of an Elixir and Madam Yu Manages the Funeral Single-Handed374

CHAPTER 64 A Chaste Girl in Sad Seclusion Writes Poems on Five Beauties An Amorous Libertine Drops His Nine-Dragon Pendant399

CHAPTER 65 A Hen-Pecked Young Profligate Takes a Concubine in Secret A Wanton Girl Mends Her Ways and Picks Herself a Husband421

CHAPTER 66 A Girl in Love Is Rejected and Kills Herself A Cold-Hearted Man Repents and Turns to Religion436

CHAPTER 67 A Gift of Local Products Makes Tai-yu Homesick Hsi-feng Questions a Page Boy and Hatches a Plot448

CHAPTER 68 Unhappy Second Sister Yu Is Decoyed into Grand View Garden Jealous Hsi-feng Makes a Scene in the Ning Mansion472

CHAPTER 69 Crafty Hsi-feng Kills Her Rival by Proxy And Second Sister Swallows Gold and Dies489

CHAPTER 70 Tai-yu Starts Another Poetry Club—Peach-Blossom Society Hsiang-yun Dashes Off a Poem on Willow Catkins506

CHAPTER 71 Lady Hsing Feeling Wronged Puts Hsi-feng in the Wrong Yuan-yang Happens upon Two Lovers520

CHAPTER 72 Hsi-feng Puts up a Bold Front,Ashamed to Admit Her Illness Loi Wang's Wife Relies on Her Mistress Power to Force Through a Match for Her Son540

CHAPTER 73 A Foolish Maid by Chance Picks up a Pornographic Pouch A Timid Young Lady Ignores the Loss of Her Gold Phoenix Tiara556

CHAPTER 74 Malicious Talk Makes Lady Wang Have a Search Made of the Garden To Guard Her Integrity Hsi-chun Breaks with the Ning Mansion572

CHAPTER 75 At a Feast One Night Portentous Sighing Is Heard New Poems on the Moon Festival Are Taken as Good Omens594

CHAPTER 76 By Convex Emerald Hall Fluting Fills an Old Lady with Grief In Concave Crystal Lodge Girls Composing a Poem Lament Their Loneliness614

CHAPTER 77 A Pretty Maid Wrongly Accused Dies on Untimely Death Lovely Actresses Sever Worldly Ties and Join a Nunnery631

CHAPTER 78 An Old Scholar at Leisure Has Eulogies Composed His Unorthodox,Witless Son Laments the Hibiscus652

CHAPTER 79 Hsueh Pan Marries a Fierce Lioness and Repents Too Late Ying-chun Is Wrongly Wedded to an Ungrateful Wolf676

CHAPTER 80 Lovely Hsiang-ling Is Unjustly Thrashed by Her Lecherous Husband The Taoist Priest Wang Prescribes a Cure for a Shrew687