Three Kingdoms

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is written 600 years ago by Luo Guan Zhong. The story tells the epic of Han Dynasty in China during the 2nd and 3rd century. It is the most popular novel in Asia. There are five editions of C.H. Brewitt-Taylor (1925, 1929, 1959, 1985, 1995), and three editions of Moss Roberts (1976, 1991, 1999.) The book has 120 chapters and over one thousand pages. Read the Three Kingdoms in Thai or English here.

The Story of Civilization

Author Will Durant was first introduced to me by Dr. William D. Leith at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. I think of Dr. Leith as a father and am grateful for his generosity and his undivided attention. The entire collection of the Story of Civilization was given to me as gifts on Christmas day. Author Durant was a great writer. This collection is highly recommended.

Ramayana

Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, two Sanskrit verse epics written some 2,000 years ago. Ramayana (the Journey of Rama) is perhaps the world's oldest literature. Cherished throughout India and Asia for millennia, it has been faithfully preserved and passed on in varied forms of popular expression-epic poems, folk tales, music, dance, drama, puppet shows, sculpture, painting, even films and comic books. Its story and characters have captured the hearts and minds of countless generations with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil. You can find the mural paintings depicting a story of Ramayana at the Emerald Buddha Temple in Bangkok, Thailand.