Water Margin (Four Volumes) (Chinese Edition)

This book is a historical novel, which has undergone accumulations of hundreds of years of Song and Yuan Dynasty. It is quite different from the Romance of Three Kingdoms, and it is not a popularized history textbook, but a tragically heroic stories collection of numerous of heroes, and a legend that assembles the ideality, emotion and creativeness of numerous Chinese people. This book can be divided into two parts, considering the Song Jiangs is being subdued as the division. Before he had been subdued, Song Jiang was a hero in Liang Shan, and he fought against the authority; while after he had been subdued, he became a member of the uprising army, and he sacrificed himself for the country. Throughout the whole story, there are the thoughts that being loyal to the sovereign and devoting to the country in a particular historical condition, and the folk-style heroism.