The Tale of Genji: The Arthur Waley Translation of Lady Murasaki's Masterpiece with a New Foreword by Dennis Washburn by Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Genji: The Arthur Waley Translation of Lady Murasaki's Masterpiece with a New Foreword by Dennis Washburn

源氏物語 #1-56

Murasaki Shikibu with Arthur Waley (Translator)

1155 pages • first pub 1001 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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"What Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. The beauty of his art has not dimmed, but like the original text itself retains the power to move and enlighten."--D...

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