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Volume I
Contents
Chapter 1
Chen Shih-yin in a Dream Sees the Jade of Spiritual Under-standing
Chia Yu-tsun in His Obscurity Is Charmed by a Maid
Chapter 2
Lady Chia Dies in the City of Yangchow
Leng Tzu-hsing Describes the Jung Mansion
Chapter 3
Lin Ju-hai Recommends a Tutor to His Brother-in -Law
The Lady Dowager Sends for Her Motherless Grand-Daughter
Chapter 4
An III-Fated Girl Meets an III-Fated Man
A Confounded Monk Ends a Confounded Case
Chapter 5
The Spiritual Stone Is Too Bemused to Grasp the Fairy's
Riddles
The Goddess of Disenchantment in Her Kindness
Secretly Expounds on Love
Chapter 6
Pao-yu Has his First Taste of Love
Granny Liu Pays her First Visit to the Jung
Mansion
Chapter 7
Madam Yu Invites Hsi-feng Alone
At a Fest in the Ning Mansion Pao-yu first meets
Chin Chung
Chapter 8
nanny Li Makes Nuisance of herself by Warning
Against Drinking
Pao-yu Breaks a Teacup and Flies into a Temper
Chapter 9
Devoted Friends Jon the Clan School
Mud-Slinging Boys Brawl in the Classroom
Chapter 10
Widow Chin pockets Her Pride Because of
Self-Interest
Dr. Chang Diagnoses Ko-ching's Illness
Chapter 11
Chia Ching's Birthday is Celebrated in the Ning
Mansion
Chia Jui Meets and Lusts After hsi-feng
Chapter 12
Hsi-feng Sets a vicious Trap for a lover
Chia Jui looks into the Wrong side of the
Precious Mirror of Love
Chapter 13
Ko-ching Dies and a captain of the Imperial
Guard Is Appointed
Hsi-feng helps to Manage affairs in the Ning
Mansion
Chapter 14
Lin Ju-hai Dies in Yangchow
Pao-yu Meets the Prince of peiching on the Rood
Chapter 15
Hsi-feng Abuses Her power at lron Threshold
Temple
Chin Chung P. muses Himself in Steamed-Bread
convent
Chapter 16
Yuan-chun Is Selected as imperial consort in
Phoenix palace Chin Chung Dying Before His Time Sets off for the Nether Regions
Chapter 17
Literary Talent Is Tested by Composing
Inscriptions in Grand View Garden
Those Losing Their Way at Happy Red Court
Explore a secluded Retreat
Chapter 18
Yuan-chun Visits Her Parents on the Feast of
Lanterns
Tai-yu helps Her True Love by Passing him a poem
Chapter 19
An Eloquent maid Offers Earnest Advice One Fine
Night
A Sweet Girl Shows Deep Feeling One Quiet Day
Chapter 20
Hsi-feng Reproves a jealous Woman
Tai-yu mocks a Prattling Girl
Chapter 21
prudent Hsi-jen Gently Takes Pao-yu to Task
Pretty Ping-erh Quietly comes to Chia Lien's
Rescue
Chapter 22
A Song Awakens pao-yu to Esoteric Truths
Lantern-Riddles Grieve Chia Cheng with Their Ill
Omens
Chapter 23
Lines from The Western Chamber Are Quoted in Fun
A Song from peony pavilion Distresses a Tender
Heart
Chapter 24
The Drunken Diamond proves Himself Generous and
Gallant
An Ambitious Girl Loses her Handkerchief as an
Enticement
Chapter 25
Five Devils Invoked by Sorcery Take Possession
of pao-yu and Hsi-feng
Two Sages See the jade of Spiritual
Understanding in the Dream of Red mansions
Chapter 26
On Wasp-waist Bridge, hsiao-hung Hints at Her
Feelings
In Bamboo Lodge, Drowsy in Spring, Tai-yu Bares
Her heart
Chapter 27
Pao-chai Chases a Butterfly to Dripping Emerald
pavilion
Tai-yu Weeps over Fallen Blossom by the Tomb of
Flowers
Chapter 28
Chiang Yu-han Gives a new Friend a Scarlet
perfumed Sash
Pao-chai Bashfully Shows Her Red Bracelet
Scented with Musk
Chapter 29
Favourites of Fortune Pray for Better Fortune
An Absurd, Loving Girl Falls Deeper in Love
Chapter 30
Pao-chai uses a Fan to Make an Insinuation
Ling-kuan Writes on the Ground and a Foolish
young Man Is Touched
Chapter 31
A Torn Fan Wins a Smile from a Maid
A pair of unicorns Suggest a Match
Chapter 32
An avowal Leaves pao-yu Bemused
Disgrace Drives Chin-chuan to Suicide
Chapter 33
A Jealous Younger Brother Tells Tales
A Worthless Son Receives a Fearful Flogging
Chapter 34
Moved by Affection, Pao-yu Moves his Cousin
A Wrong Report Makes pao-chai Wrong her Brother
Chapter 35
Yu-chuan Tastes Some Lotus-leaf Broth
Ying-erh Skillfully Makes a Plum-blossom net
Chapter 36
A Dream During the Embroidering of Mandarin
Ducks in red Rue Studio Foretells the Future
Pao-yu Learns in pear Fragrance Court that Each
has His Share of Love
Chapter 37
Begonia club Takes Form One Day in the Studio of
Autumn Freshness
Themes for Poems on chrysanthemums Are prepared
One Evening in Alpinia Park
Chapter 38
The Queen of Bamboos Wins First place with Her
Poems on chrysanthemums
The Lady of the Alpinia Writes a Satire upon
Crabs
Chapter 39
An Old Village Woman Tells tall Stories
A Romantic Youth Insists on Following Them Up
Chapter 40
The Lady Dowager Feasts again In Grand View
Garden
Yuan-yang presides over a Drinking Game
Volume II
Chapter 41
Pao-yu Sips Tea in Green lattice nunnery
Granny Liu Succumbs to Wine n happy Red Court
Chapter 42
The Lady of the Alpinia Warns Against Dubious
Tastes in Literature
The Queen of Bamboos' Quips Add to the General
Enjoyment
Chapter 43
To Kill Time money Is Raised to Celebrate a
Birthday
Incense Is burned On he Ground to Undying Love
Chapter 44
Hsi-feng, Taken by surprise, Gives way to
Jealousy
Ping-erh, Unexpectedly Gratified, Makes Her
Toilet
Chapter 45
Two Girls Pledge Friendship after a
heart-to-heart Talk
A Plaintive Poem Is Written One Windy, Rainy
Evening
Chapter 46
An Old Reprobate makes an Unseemly proposal
Yuan-yang Vows never to Marry
Chapter 47
A stupid Bully Is Beaten Up for His Amorous
Advances
A Cool Young Gentleman Leaves Hoe for Fear of
Reprisals
Chapter 48
A Rebuffed Reprobate Decides on a Journey
An Aspiring Maid Racks her Brains to Write
Poetry
Chapter 49
White Snow and Red Plum-Blossom make the Garden
Entrancing
Girls Enjoy Rustic Fare at a Venison Barbecue
Chapter 50
In Reed Snow Cottage Girls Vie in Composing a
Collective Poem
In Warm Scented Arbour Fine Lantern Riddles Are
Made
Chapter 51
Pao-chin Composes Poems Recalling the Past
An Incompetent Physician prescribes Strong
medicine
Chapter 52
Tactful pin-erh Conceals the Theft of Her gold
Bracelet
Plucky ching-wen Mends a Peacock-Feather Cape in
Bed
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 Mansion
Chapter 54
The Lady Dowager Debunks Trite Stories
Hsi-feng Clowns to Amuse her Elders
Chapter 55
A Stupid Concubine Insults Her own Daughter in a
Futile Squabble
A Spiteful Servant Imposes upon Her young
Mistress
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 Kindness
Chapter 57
Artful Tzu-chuan Tests pao-yu's Feelings
Kindly Aunt Hsueh comforts Tai-yu
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 Infatuation
Chapter 59
Ying-erh and chun-yen Are Scolded by Willow bank
And Red Rue Studio Sends for reinforcements
Chapter 60
Jasmine powder Is Substituted for rose-Nitric
powder
Rose Flavoured Juice Is Repaid With pachyma
Cocos
Chapter 61
Pao-yu Covers Up a girl's Theft to protect his
Sister
ping-erh Wields Authority to Right a Wrong
Chapter 62
Sweet hsiang-yun Sleeps Tipsily Among peonies
Silly Hsiang-ling Coyly Takes Off her
Pomegranate Skirt
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-Handed
Chapter 64
A Chaste Girl in Sad Seclusion Writes poems on
Five beauties
An Amorous Libertine Drops his Nine-Dragon
Pendant
Chapter 65
A hen-Pecked Young profligate takes a Concubine
in Secret
A Wanton Girl Mends her Ways and picks herself a
Husband
Chapter 66
A Girl in Love Is Rejected and Kills Herself
A cold-hearted Man Repents and Turns to Religion
Chapter 67
A Gift of Local Products makes Tai-yu Homesick
Hsi-feng Questions a Page Boy and hatches a Plot
Chapter 68
Unhappy Second Sister yu Is Decoyed Into Grand
view Garden
Jealous Hsi-feng makes a Scene in the Ning
Mansion
Chapter 69
Crafty Hsi-feng Kills Her Rival by Proxy
And Second Sister Swallows gold and Dies
Chapter 70
Tai-yu Starts Another poetry Club-Peach-Blossom
Society
Hsiang-yun Dashes Off a poem on Willow Catkins
Chapter 71
Lady Hsing Feeling Wronged Puts Hsi-feng in the
Wrong
Yuan-yang happens upon Two Lovers
Chapter 72
Hsi-feng Puts up a Bold Front, Ashamed to Admit
Her Illness
Lai Wang's Wife Relies on her Mistress' power to
Force Through a Match for Her Son
Chapter 73
A Foolish maid by Chance Picks up a Pornographic
Pouch
A Timid Young Lady Ignores the Loss of her Gold
Phoenix Tiara
Chapter 74
Malicious Talk Makes Lady Wang have a Search
made of the Garden
To Guard her Integrity Hsi-chun Breaks with the
Ning Mansion
Chapter 75
At a Feast One Night Portentous Sighing Is heard
New Poems on the Moon Festival Are Taken as Good
Omens
Chapter 76
By Convex Emerald hall Fluting fills an Old Lady
with grief
In concave Crystal Lodge Girls Composing a poem
Lament Their Loneliness
Chapter 77
A Pretty Maid Wrongly Accused Dies an Untimely
Death
Lovely Actresses Sever Worldly Ties and Join a
Nunnery
Chapter 78
An Old Scholar at Leisure Has Eulogies composed
His Unorthodox, witless Son Laments the hibiscus
Chapter 79
Hsueh pan Marries a Fierce Lioness and Repents
Too Late
Ying-chun Is Wrongly Wedded to an Ungrateful
Wolf
Chapter 80
Lovely Hsiang-ling Is Unjustly Thrashed by Her
Lecherous Husband
The Taoist Priest Wang Prescribes a Cure for a
Shrew
Volume III
Chapter 81
Four Beauties Fish in the Pond to Try Their Luck
Pao-yu's Father orders Him Back to the Family
school
Chapter 82
An Old teacher Expounds the Classics to Warn
Against Mischief
The queen of Bamboos Falling Ill has a
Fearful Nightmare
Chapter 83
The Imperial Consort Falls Ill and her relatives
Call at the Palace
Chin-kuei makes a Scene and pao-chai has to
Swallow Her Anger
Chapter 84
Pao-yu's Writing Is Tested and his Marriage
Considered
Chia Huan Visits an Invalid and Arouses Fresh
Resentment
Chapter 85
Chia Cheng Is Promoted to the Rank of
Vice-Minister
Hsueh Pan Is Involved in Another Manslaughter
Case
Chapter 86
an Old Magistrate Takes a Bribe to Re-open a
Case
A Young girl, to while Away Time, Explains a
Lute Score
Chapter 87
Moved by an Autumn poem, a Lutist Mourns the
past
One Practicing Yoga Is Possessed Through Lust
Chapter 88
Pao-yu, to Please His Grandmother, Praises a
Fatherless Boy
Chia Chen to Uphold Household discipline, has
unruly Servants
Whipped
Chapter 89
A Memento of a Dead Maid Leads Pao-yu to Write a
Poem
A False Suspicion makes Tai-yu Abstain from Food
Chapter 90
The Loss of a Padded Jacket Involves a poor girl
with a Scold
A gift of Sweetmeats Perturbs a Young Gentleman
Chapter 91
Wanton pao-chan Lays a cunning Plot
Pao-yu Makes Extravagant Answers When Catechized
Chapter 92
Comments on the Lives of Worthy Women of Old
Fill Chiao-chieh With Admiration
Chia Cheng, Toying with a Mother pearl,
Discourses on the Rise and Fall of Great Houses
Chapter 93
A Servant of the chen Family Offers His Services
to the Chias
A Scandal in water Moon convent Is Exposed
Chapter 94
The Lady Dowager Gives a Feast to Celebrate the
Strange
Blossoming of the Crab-Apple Trees
The Loss of Pao-yu's Jade of Spiritual
Understanding Heralds Trouble
Chapter 95
A Rumour comes True and the Imperial consort
yuan-chun Dies
A fraud Is Perpetrated After pao-yu Loses his
Mind
Chapter 96
Hsi-feng Withholds Information and Lays a
Cunning plan
Disclosure of a Secret Deranges Tai-yu
Chapter 97
Tai-yu burns Her poems to End Her Infatuation
Pao-Chai goes Through Her Wedding Ceremony
Chapter 98
Unhappy Vermilion Pearl's spirit Returns in
Sorrow to Heaven
Deranged Shen Ying Sheds Tears in the Lodge of
His Loved One
Chapter 99
an Upright Official Has Venal Underlings
A Perusal of the court Gazette Fills Chia Cheng
With concern for His Nephew
Chapter 100
By Frustrating Chin-Kuei Hsiang-ling Makes a
Worse Enemy of Her
Pao-yu Grieves Over Tan-chun's Departure to
marry for from home
Chapter 101
A Ghostly Warning Is Given One Moonlit Night in
Grand View Garden
A fearful Omen Is Issued by the Oracle in
Scattering Flowers Temple
Chapter 102
Powers of Darkness Derange the Inmates of the
Ning Mansion
priests Exorcise Evil Spirits in Grand View
Garden
Chapter 103
Chin-kuei Plots murder and Destroys herself
Chia Yu-tsun, Blind to the Truth, Meets an old
Friend in Vain
Chapter 104
The Drunken Diamond Brags That Small Fry can
Stir Up Big Billows
A Crazy Lordling Grieves over the past
Chapter 105
Imperial Guards Raid the Ning Mansion
A Censor Brings a Charge Against the Prefect of
pingan
Chapter 106
Hsi-feng Is Conscience-Smitten at Causing
Calamity
The Lady Dowager prays to Heaven to Avert
Disaster
Chapter 107
The Lady Dowager Impartially Shares Out Her
Savings
Chia Cheng's Hereditary Title Is Restored by
Imperial Favour
Chapter 108
Pao-chai's Birthday Is Celebrated with Forced
Mirth
Pao-yu, Longing or the Dead, hears Ghosts
Weeping in Bamboo Lodge
Chapter 109
Pao-yu Waits for a Fragrant Spirit and Wu-erh is
Loved by Default
Ying-chun pays her Mortal Debt and Returns to
the primal Void
Chapter 110
The Lady Dowager passes away peacefully
Hsi-Feng Is Powerless and Loses support
Chapter 111
Yuan-yang Dies for Her Mistress and Ascends to
the great Void
a Despicable Slave Leads Robbers into the
Mansion
Chapter 112
A Terrible Disaster Befalls Miao-yu
Nursing Enmity concubine Chao Is Haled Off to
Hell
Chapter 113
Repenting her Sins Hsi-feng Seeks help from a
Village Woman
Relinquishing Her Resentment Tzu-chuan is
Touched by Her Besotted Master
Chapter 114
Hsi-feng Has Hallucinations and Goes Back to
Chinling
Chen Yin-chia, Pardoned by the emperor, Returns
to Court
Chapter 115
personal prejudice Strengthens Hsi-chun's
conviction
Pao-yu Fails to find a True Friend in His Double
Chapter 116
Pao-yu, His Divine Jade Recovered, Attains
Understanding in the Illusory Realm
Chia cheng Escorts His mother's coffin Home to
Fulfill His Filial Duty
Chapter 117
Two Maids Protect Pao-yu's Jade Lest He Renounce
the World
A Worthless Son, Taking Sole charge of the
house, Revels in Bad company
Chapter 118
A Disgruntled Uncle and cousin Delude a helpless
girl
Alarmed by His Cryptic Talk, wife and Concubine
Reprove Their Witless Husband
Chapter 119
Pao-yu Passes the Examination with honours and
Severs Earthly Ties
The Chia Family retains Its Wealth and Titles
Thanks to Imperial Favour
Chapter 120
Chen Shih-yin Expounds the Illusory Realm
Chia Yu-tsun concludes the Dream of Red Mansions
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