/lit/ - Literature

>>22004418
>Tuttle version
I still might go with the 5 volume version, but thanks for the clarification regarding the Tuttle version. By the way, are any Chinese Gods mentioned in Water Margin? Or is it more of a historical legend affair like Romance of the Three Kingdoms? I know that Guan Yu was deified for his heroic actions in the Three Kingdoms Period, but do any other Chinese Gods show up in RoTK?

>The Dent-Young translation is five volumes, The Broken Seals, The Tiger Killers, The Gathering Company, Iron Ox, and The Scattered Flock.
Thanks for that rundown. I'm a bit worried that the covers for Volumes 4 and 5 don't match the art style of Volumes 1-3 for cover design. Volumes 4 and 5 are just black and red with white text while the covers of 1-3 are blue, green and a purple-ish red respectively. Also, while some of them on Amazon say "more on the way", others say "order soon". Can even books labeled "order soon" be restocked like the "more on the way" category or are they that close to going out of print?

>>22004439
>Moss Roberts
>Anthony Yu
>Sydney Shapiro
I'll keep these translators in mind. Two of them are already on my list.

On another note for both of you, do you have any recommendations for English translations of Investiture of the Gods and Legend of the White Snake? Would really like to add some more classical Shenmo novels to go along with my eventual copies of Journey to the West. So IotG and LotWS are a high priority for me. Pic related in that Nezha is one of the characters in Investiture of the Gods and I would like to read about him.