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Plum Rocky Mountain

Known today mainly through a single public-domain Chinese novel, this elusive writer is associated with a comic, satirical story about wealth, appearance, and the awkward search for happiness.

1 Audiobook

癡人福

癡人福

by Plum Rocky Mountain

About the author

Project Gutenberg lists Plum Rocky Mountain as the author of the Chinese work 癡人福 (Chi ren fu), released there as ebook #27184. Across the sources available here, that is the only clearly confirmed title tied to this name.

Reliable biographical details are very scarce. I couldn't confirm a fuller identity, dates, or background from dependable sources, so this author appears to be obscure in English-language literary records. Based on the available book descriptions, 癡人福 centers on a wealthy but unattractive man and uses humor to explore social judgment, self-image, and marriage.

Because the record is so limited, the most accurate introduction is a modest one: an author remembered chiefly for a little-known Chinese novel that has survived through digital archives rather than a well-documented public life.