The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Genji

源氏物語 #1-56

Murasaki Shikibu with Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

360 pages first pub 1001 (editions) user-added

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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The world's first novel, in a translation that is "likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come" (The Wall Street Journal) The inspiration behind The Metropolitan Museum of Art's The Tale of Genji A Japanese Classic Illuminated...

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