I fondly remember working my way through the college library's edition of Clement Egerton's translation, The Golden Lotus, back in the day, the naughty bits all in ... Latin (the challenge !).
Now David Tod Roy has completed his five-volume unexpurgated translation of this Chinese classic, as The Plum in the Golden Vase (see the Princeton University Press publicity page for volume one, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk and work your way forward from there), and it's good to see this getting some proper attention -- now even in The New York Times, where Jennifer Schuessler reports that An Old Chinese Novel Is Racy Reading Still.
It's no The Story of the Stone -- the greatest of the classical Chinese novels -- but it is a lot of fun. (I'm tempted to revisit it, too .....)
It's no The Story of the Stone -- the greatest of the classical Chinese novels -- but it is a lot of fun. (I'm tempted to revisit it, too .....)