The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji by Norma Field

The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji

Norma Field

400 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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Foremost among Japanese literary classics and one of the world's earliest novels, the Tale of Genji was written around the year A.D. 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman from a declining aristocratic family. For sophisticaion and insight, Western pro...

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