Three Kingdoms (Authentic, Brand New, 4-Vol Set)

Book title: "Three Kingdoms", also known as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "San Guo Yan Yi".

This book set translated by Moss Roberts using modern pinyin system is the most popular edition in the market. 2008 edition. it is brand new, unabridged,  original shrink-wrapped, complete 4-volume paperback set with slipcase. Author: Luo Guanzhong, translator: Moss Roberts (American sinologist), total 2340 pages.

(International buyers pay only $14.95 for shipping and handling. Also there will be no shrink-wrapping and slipcase will be unglued)

(Collect all Four Most Famous Chinese Classic novels of all time in Chinese History and loved by people, young and old :

"THREE KINGDOMS"

"OUTLAWS OF THE MARSH",

"JOURNEY TO THE WEST",

"A DREAM OF RED MANSIONS"

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If any literary work captures the drama of Chinese history, it is Three Kingdoms. The novel offers a startling and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought; and the novel has in turn influenced the ways of Chinese think about power, diplomacy, and war. Three Kingdoms, like all of China's major novels, offers Western readers an understanding of China from the perspective of the Chinese themselves.

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"The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been." Echoing the rhythms of Chinese history itself, the monumental tale Three Kingdoms begins. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this fourteenth-century masterpiece continues to be loved and read throughout China today. Three Kingdoms portrays a fateful moment at the end of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the future of the Chinese empire lay in the balance. Fearing attacks by three rebellious states, the emperor sent out an urgent appeal for support. In response, three young men - the aristocratic Liu Xuande, the fugitive Lord Guan, and the pig butcher Zhang Fei - met to swear eternal brotherhood and fealty to their beleaguered country. Their vow set in motion the series of events that ultimately resulted in the collapse of the Han. Writing centuries later, Luo Guanzhong drew on, often-told tales of this turbulent period to fashion a sophisticated narrative of loyalty and treachery, triumph and defeat, that came to epitomize all that was best and worst in the life of his country. Illustrated.

FROM THE BACK COVER: ("A martial epic with an astonishing fidelity to history, which has been translated now into lively English by Moss Roberts. . . . The subject matter of Three Kingdoms has long held an extraordinary grip on the Chinese imagination. . . . The great achievement of the author . . . was to match historiography with fiction and gain a synergistic effect from the combination of elite and popular tradition." (Patrick Hanan, New York Times Book Review ) "The Three Kingdoms gives us The Iliad of China. First of the five great works of traditional prose fiction, this master narrative transforms history into epic and has thereby educated and entertained readers of five centuries with unforgettable exemplars of martial and civic virtue, of personal fidelity and political treachery. Moss Roberts's translation, the first complete rendering in English, is one of surpassing excellence and impeccable scholarship. It should delight and captivate Western readers for many more years to come." (Anthony C. Yu, University of Chicago )