The Story of the Stone
core novel 1988 The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
Record
| First published | 1988 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.12 (3,048 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 289 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780553282788 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
- Series: The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Barry Hughart
Notes
- From the series record (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox): A comic, mythic detective fantasy set in a China that never quite existed, following the elderly sage Master Li and his young assistant Number Ten Ox. The author stopped at three novels by choice, saying a fourth would only repeat what the first three had already done, and died in 2019 without writing more.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox: position 2 of 3: previous Bridge of Birds (1984) · next Eight Skilled Gentlemen (1990)
Sources
← The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox dossier · All universes
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