The Tale of Genji (Everyman's Library) (HB) by Murasaki Shikibu, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

The Tale of Genji (Everyman's Library) (HB) by Murasaki Shikibu, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the world's first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian era (794 1185) is recognized as one of the very greatest periods in Japanese literature, and The Tale of Genji is not only the unquestioned prose masterpiece of that period but also the most lively and absorbing account we have of the intricate, exquisite, highly

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