Water Margin (Volume 1, Volume 2)

Author: [Ming] Shi Nai'an
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Features: The Water Margin is a novel that combines many oral traditions, storytelling scripts, and theatrical plays, and has been continuously refined and organized by scholars. It depicts a group of commoners, lower-level gentry, officials, and military officers in the Northern Song Dynasty who, unable to endure the exploitation, oppression, and bullying by the government and court, rise up in rebellion and gather on Mount Liang. The entire story is full of intricate and touching plots, vivid and realistic characters, with the 108 heroes each possessing unique charm. The language is both colloquial and refined, making it highly literary and a renowned, widely enjoyed novel for both the educated and the masses.