The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

源氏物語 #1-56

The Tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu with Dennis Washburn (Translator)

1320 pages hardcover 1001

81 editions

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""A graceful, lucid translation of the world's first, and one of its greatest, novels."--Alan Tansman, University of California, Berkeley. Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian Period (794-1185 CE), wrote...

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