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Category - Fiction / Romance
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 2 years ago
Views - 105
Wishes - 7
Ships From - Minnesota
Est. Publication Date - Jan 1976
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Written in the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikoku, a lady of the Heian court. It is universally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose narrative, perhaps the earliest true novel in the history of the world. Until now there has been no translation that is both complete and scrupulously faithful to the original text. Edward G. Seidensticker’s masterly rendering was first published in two volumes in 1976 and immediately hailed as a classic of the translator’s art. It is here presented in one unabridged volume, illustrated throughout by woodcuts taken from a 1650 Japanese edition of The Tale of Genji.#classic#japanese#medieval
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The Tale of Genji
ISBN: 0394483286
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This is the prose masterpiece of the Heian era of the 10th and 11th centuries, which is recognized as a great period in Japanese literature. It is an account of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordere...
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