PDF The Three Kingdoms Volume 3 Welcome The Tiger The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation with Footnotes Luo Guanzhong Ronald C Iverson Yu Sumei Books

Product details Series The Three Kingdoms (Book 3) Paperback 512 pages Publisher Tuttle Publishing; 1 edition (May 27, 2014) Language English ISBN-10 9780804843959 ISBN-13 978-0804843959 ASIN 0804843953

The Three Kingdoms Volume 3 Welcome The Tiger The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation with Footnotes Luo Guanzhong Ronald C Iverson Yu Sumei Books Reviews

• If you are going to start reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms then you should start with this book series. This edition is more coherent and well put together with footnotes at the bottom and end of each chapter. There is a character list in the beginning with brief descriptions. The names and places are spelled/pronounced more accurately. This series is a MUST for any fan of classical literature.
• Best translation that I have of the series. I have 4 different ones. Very happy with this book.
• My 15-year old LOVES this book. He's read it twice already.
• It's great as long you don't steal it!
• Vol. 3 provides an exciting conclusion to the preceding volumes. In Volumes 1 and 2, Zhuge Liang has masterminded, with clever maneuvers, victory at the Battle of Red Cliff against Cao Coa and then gone on to capture important cities, thus vastly increasing Liu Bei’s military power with additional soldiers and control of wealthy cities and provinces.
  Liu Bei dies in Vol. 3 leaving control of his kingdom to his son Liu Shan. Cao Cao, seeks to take advantage of Liu Bei’s death and inexperience of Liu Shan. Cao Cao comes up with a cunning scheme to attack Liu Shan’s kingdom from five directions. I was anxious to read how Zhuge Liang was going to deal with this new threat. However he reclused himself in his hut and would not come out. Finally after 3 days, Liu Shan goes to Zhuge Liang’s hut to hear what plans he has in mind. Zhuge Liang has brilliant plans to thwart each of the five attacks. He will himself lead the attack again the fierce Man tribes. In his fight against the Mans, after the battle he releases their leader on the faith of his good word that they will not fight again. This happens six times that Zhuge Liang battles and has victory over the Mans, each time capturing the leader and releasing him. After the seventh time, Zhuge Liang refuses to even see the leader of the Mans and has his assistant release him. At this, the leader of the Mans was so humiliated that he agreed to have a peace alliance with Liu Shan and have peaceful cooperation in the future.
  The Three Kingdoms story is truly one of the great classics of literature. This translation is easy reading. The footnotes were not only helpful, but at those special key locations in the writing, the footnotes at the bottom of the page made the flow of the story more meaningful.
• Excellent books to read
• good
• This is a highly disappointing book.