Episodes in this novel include Sun Ruan Er killing her husband with a needle, Xiahou Dun eating his own severed eyeball, and Lu Bu riding into battle on the "five-hundred-mile-a-day horse" Red-Hare.
Episodes in this novel include Sun Ruan Er killing her husband with a needle, Xiahou Dun eating his own severed eyeball, and Lu Bu riding into battle on the "five-hundred-mile-a-day horse" Red-Hare. Its chief characters are a Taoist hermit who becomes a master tactician, named Zhuge Liang, the poet-general Cao Cao, and three men who swear brotherhood by a peach tree: the warrior Zhang Fei, the knight Guan Yu, and the nobleman Liu Bei, a descendant of the Han dynastic line. For ten points, name this Luo Guanzhong novel describing a third-century era of Chinese history.
Episodes in this novel include Sun Ruan Er killing her husband with a needle, Xiahou Dun eating his own severed eyeball, and Lu Bu riding into battle on the "five-hundred-mile-a-day horse" Red-Hare.
{Romance of the Three Kingdoms} [or {San Guo Yan Yi}]