Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 1: Volume 1

Description

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Lo Kuan-chung's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 A.D., one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death. 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 as well as in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Lo Kuan-chung (c.1330-c.1400) was a novelist and dramatist who played an essential role in the development of Chinese popular fiction.

"One of the greatest and best-loved works of popular literature." --Dictionary of Oriental Literatures