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The Gathering Company : Part Three of The Marshes of Mount Liang by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dent-Young, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Gathering Company
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong KongPress, 2001.
- Summary:
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- Contents:
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowlegements
- Introduction
- Chapter 44 Panther and Magic Messenger on a byway meet
- Morbid encounter
- Chapter 45 Morbid gets drunk and scolds his wife
- Madcap ends the lecher's life!
- Chapter 46 Morbid gets rough on Jade Screen Hill
- Madcap burns the Zhu Arms down!
- Chapter 47 Skyhawk twice invokes the oath of loyalty
- Song Jiang attacks Zhu Castle!
- Chapter 48 Steelbright captures Short-Arse Wang
- Song Jiang twice attacks Zhu Castle!
- Chapter 49 Colonel Sun and Blackface attack the prison
- Snake and Scorpion are sprungfrom gaol!
- Chapter 50 The Professor carries out a double plan
- Song Jiang attacks Zhu Castle for thethird time!
- Chapter 51 Sergeant Lei's aroused, a singer's killed
- Whiskers loses an innocent child!
- Chapter 52 Iron Ox beats the Chancellor to death
- Mr. Chai becomes a prisoner in Gaotang!
- Chapter 53 Magic Messenger wins the argument by using his wits
- Iron Ox believes he's chopped the Sage to bits!
- Chapter 54 The Taoist uses magic to defeat Gao Lian
- Iron Ox descends the well to rescue Chai Jin!
- Chapter 55 Marshal Gao finds himself three commanders
- Twin Rods deploys his linked cavalry!
- Chapter 56 The Professor gets the Flea to steal some armour
- spots lures the Spearsman to the mountain!
- Chapter 57 The Spearsman teaches the booked spear
- Song Jiang destroys the linked cavalry!
- Chapter 58 Three mountains join forces against Qingzhou
- All the tigers agree to repair to the Marshes!
- Chapter 59 The Professor purloins the Emperor's bell
- Song Jiang fights on the Western Peak!
- Chapter 60 Taoist Gongsun defeats the ghosts of Mount Mangdang
- Chao Gai is struck by an arrow at Zengside!
- Chapter 61 The Professor has a plan to trap the Unicorn
- White Eel fights at Golden Sands Landing!.
- Chapter 62 The Pordigy saves his master with well directed arrows
- By leaping from a balcony Madcap robs the gallows!.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9789622018471
- 9622018475
- OCLC:
- 1244630907
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