Outlaws Of The Marsh
By Shi Nai'an & Luo Guanzhong. Translated by Sidney Shapiro. 4 volume
boxed set, 1,650 pages, paperback. A classic traditional adventure fiction
from ancient China. Written in the fourteenth century, is a story of how
over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom
to take to the hills, one by one. They band together and defeat every attempt
of troops to crush them. All of this told in the traditional storyteller
format. |