The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Genji

源氏物語 #1-56

Murasaki Shikibu with Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

1197 pages first pub 1001 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the world's first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian era (794--1185) is recognized as one of the very greate...

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