Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en

Published 1994 · 306 pages · 84,150 words · about 5 hours at an average pace

How hard is Monkey: The Journey to the West to read?

Monkey: The Journey to the West scores 31 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Where the story of Monkey: The Journey to the West takes place

  • China & Western Regions, Tang Dynasty pilgrimage (629 to 645), the main setting

About the author

Wu Cheng'en