Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Tale of Genji

源氏物語 #1-56

Murasaki Shikibu with Kencho Suematsu (Translator)

223 pages first pub 1001 (editions)

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 the...

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