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The Scattered Flock

Part Five of The Marshes of Mount Liang

Guanzhong Luo author Nai'an Shi author John Dent-Young translator Alex Dent-Young translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The Chinese University Press

Published:31st Dec '02

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The Scattered Flock, the last volume of this new series of translations, contains chapters 91-120 that mark the disastrous end of the 108 heroes. The action in this volume can be divided into three parts: the campaign against Tian Hu, the campaign against Wang Qing and the campaign against Fang La. It is in the last of these that the heroes of Mount Liang begin to die. Their demise is as haphazard and casual as the scattering of the flock of geese when the Prodigy shoots them for mere amusement. But the theme of the vanity of human wishes, the emptiness of ambition, becomes prominent earlier.

ISBN: 9789622019904

Dimensions: 21mm x 14mm x 3mm

Weight: 1503g

484 pages