Three Kingdoms

A Historical Novel

By: Guanzhong Luo, Moss Roberts (Translator)

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Paperback | 12 May 2020 | Edition Number 1

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“A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history."—New York Times Book Review

Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. This abridged edition captures the novel's intimate and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam and remains a great work of world literature.

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"A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history, which has beentranslated now into lively English by Moss Roberts. . . . The subjectmatter of Three Kingdoms has long held an extraordinary grip onthe Chinese imagination. . . . No less an authority than Mao Zedongasserted that when he set out on the campaigns that would ultimatelybring him to power, Three Kingdoms was the book he valued most.-New York Times Book Review"[Roberts] is the perfect author to present a balanced combination ofthe most famous, exciting, and beautiful scenes along with those partsthat are necessary for following the plot. . . . [He] has succeeded . . .in creating an absorbing version of the book that is great fun to read.-China Review International

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