03134cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000190011324500630013226400510019530000470024633600260029333700260031933800360034550000720038150000960045350000310054950802160058052017580079653400660255465300590262070000550267985600430273499900190277777416UtSlPG20260610134807.0mcr n260607r20251925utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPL1 aLuo, Guanzhong10aSan kuo; or, Romance of the three kingdoms (volume 1 of 2) 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTranslation of first part of: 三國志演義 (San guo zhi yan yi).  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms  aRelease date is 2025-12-07  aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)  aRomance of the Three Kingdoms (traditional Chinese: 三國演義; simplified Chinese: 三国演义; pinyin: Sānguó Yǎnyì) is a 14th-century historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong. It is set during the turbulent final years of the Han dynasty and the subsequent Three Kingdoms period, spanning from the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 CE to the reunification of China proper under the Western Jin dynasty in 280. The novel is based primarily on the Records of the Three Kingdoms, written by Chen Shou in the 3rd century.
Blending history with fiction, the narrative romanticizes the lives of warlords and their retainers, centering on the three rival power blocs that emerged from the collapse of the Han dynasty and eventually formed the states of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu. The novel, with a pro-Shu perspective, depicts the political maneuvering, military campaigns, and personal rivalries among these states as they struggled for supremacy over nearly a century.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms is acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classic Novels of Chinese literature; it has a total of 800,000 words and nearly a thousand dramatic characters (mostly historical) in 120 chapters. The novel is among the most beloved works of literature in East Asia, and its literary influence in the region has been compared to that of the works of Shakespeare on English literature. Its impact is also extensive and eminent in Southeast Asia, with many of its characters becoming household names there. It is arguably the most widely read historical novel in late imperial and modern China. Herbert Giles stated that for the Chinese themselves, this is regarded as the "greatest among their countless novels".

 (This summary is from Wikipedia.)  pOriginally published:cShanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1925  aChina -- History -- Three kingdoms, 220-265 -- Fiction1 aBrewitt-Taylor, C. H.q(Charles Henry),d1857-193840uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77416  c118136d118136