The Tale of Genji: The Arthur Waley Translation by Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Genji: The Arthur Waley Translation

源氏物語 #1-56

Murasaki Shikibu with Arthur Waley (Translator)

743 pages first pub 1001 (editions) user-added

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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 Centuries before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji was already acknowledged as a classic of Japanese literature. Over the past century, this book has gained worldwide acceptance as not only the world's first novel but as one of th...

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