Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (969 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520282167 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Adam S said Videogames can lend themselves to Historical/Literary education.. This is an awesome set. Complaints about how thin the paper is I find to be unreasonable. The paper is completely adequate - now the New American Bible - that's thin paper. The typos are slightly annoying but not too much of a big deal. The translation I find to be very readable. The material is dense and the footnotes are vital. The amount of information on even a single page is astounding and. A Must Read T. Hooper First of all, this is a classic of Chinese that is relatively unknown in the west. This epic could be considered the Shakespeare of the Chinese language. It depicts the decay and collapse of the Han dynasty. In the process of this decay, the nation is split into three kingdoms which stuggle for supremacy. In the process of this struggle, we find tales of friendship, heroism, betrayal, and trage. Extraordinary Epic Novel! If you have ever played any of KOEI Dynasty Series games, then you are familiar with the Han Dynasty and some of the Chinese History. If you were interested in knowing more than what you did in the video games, then this book is for you.This is an awesome epic novel, sweeping the history of Chinese history. All of the characters that are in the Dynasty Series game are here for our further knowl
No less an authority than Mao Zedong asserted that when he set out on the campaigns that would ultimately bring him to power, Three Kingdoms was the book he valued most." -- Patrick Hanan, New York Times Book Review. "The subject matter of Three Kingdoms has long held an extraordinary grip on the Chinese imagination
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.. Updated with a new foreword by Moss Roberts for this fifteenth anniversary edition, Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 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. 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