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A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history. Jun 14, 2004 the three kingdoms gives us the iliad of china. The book of wei contains 30 volumes, the book of shu 15 volumes, while the book of wu contains 20 volumes. Readers can purchase either a twovolume set that contains the full work, or a one volume abridged. Romance of the three kingdoms book purchase information.
Romance of the three kingdoms epub northern territory. The records of the three kingdoms, also known as sanguo zhi, contains 65 volumes and about 360,000 chinese characters broken into three books. This decisive period in chinese history became a subject of intense and continuing interest to historians, poets, and dramatists. Sometimes i look at this old story and marvel to see it glow as the time goes by. As a young games i was drawn into koeis romance of the three kingdom games, so much that i actually picked this book up to learn more about the history behind the games. 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. Three kingdoms ebook by guanzhong luo rakuten kobo. The first edition of the novel was published in 1522, and was written by luo guanzhong. Romance of the three kingdoms is one of the four great classical novels of chinese literature and the most famous historical novel in china. Zhao yun, guan yu, and diao chan are all famous historical figures back in the three kingdoms era of china. If we were to kill him now, the public would not be with us.
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