作者简介
施耐庵（1296年—1370年），原名彦端，别号耐庵，著名的元末明初作家。1331年登进士，不久任浙江钱塘县尹。后弃官归里，闭门著述，搜集整理关于梁山泊宋江等英雄人物的故事，最终写成“四大名著”之一的《水浒传》。

内容介绍
《水浒传》是我国四大名著之一。全书以“官逼民反”这一主题作为线索，描写了一群不堪暴政压迫的“好汉”揭竿而起的故事。小说讲述了聚义水泊梁山、接受招安然后失败的整个过程。
全书故事可以以宋江受招安前后分成两个部分，受招安前是梁山英雄发展壮大、对抗朝廷的过程，受招安后是起义军为国尽忠、损失殆尽的悲剧。贯穿始终的，是一种在特殊历史环境下的“忠君报国”思想，和具有浓重平民色彩的英雄主义精神。

China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh，written in the fourteenth century，is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty.One by one，over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills.They band together and defeat every attempt of the government troops to crush them.Within this framework we find intrigue，adventure，murder，warfare，romance…in a connected series of fascinating individual tales，told in the suspenseful manner of the traditional storyteller.

目　　录

CHAPTER 1
Zhang the Divine Teacher Prays to Dispel a Plague
Marshal Hong Releases Demons by Mistake
CHAPTER 2
Arms Instructor Wang Goes Secretly to Yanan Prefecture
Nine Dragons Shi Jill Wreaks Havoc in Shi Family Village
CHAPTER 3
Master Shi Leaves Huayin County at Night
Major Lu Pummels the Lord of the West
CHAPTER 4
Sagacious Lu Puts Mount Wutai in an Uproar
Squire Zhao Repairs Wenshu Monastery
CHAPTER 5
Dnmk，the Little King Raises the Gold-Spangled Bed Curtains

About the Author

"The Patriotic and Righteous Outlaws of the Marsh is in one hundred chapters. Originally written by Shi Nai'an of Qiantang, and arranged by Luo Guanzhong." Luo Guanzhong, a native of Taiyuan, styled 'Wanderer of the Lakes and Seas.'He was solitary by nature, a writer of ballads and in esoteric language, which are original and fresh.

Shidney Shapiro was born in New York, USA, in 1915. In 1937 he graduated from the Faculty of Law at St. John's University, and began to practice as a lawyer. During the World War II he was recruited into the army, and later studied Chinese at Columbia University and Yale University. He came to China in April 1947, and in 1948 he married the Chinese writer Feng Fengzi (Phoenix). From 1952, Shapiro worked as an English-language speicalist at the magazine Chinese Literature, and later at China Pictorial. He took Chinese citizenship in 1963, and was a member of the sixth, seventh and eighth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He has translated Yuan Jing's Daughters and Sons, Ba Jin's Family, Mao Dun's Spring Silkworms, Qu Bo's Tracks in the Snowy Forest, Du Pengcheng's Defend Yan'an and Liu Qing's Builders of a New Life. Shapiro has also authored some books, including An American in China, My China, The law and lore of China: Criminal Justice, A Sampler of Chinese Literature- from the Ming Dynasty to Mao Zedong, Jews in Old China: Studies by Chinese Scholars and Ma Haide- Saga of an American Doctor George Hatem.

Outlaws of the Marsh（Ⅰ--Ⅳ）（English edition）水浒传（全英文简装版）（全4卷）Outlaws of the Marsh（Ⅰ--Ⅳ）

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