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The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari)

✍ Scribed by Shikibu, Murasaki; Suematsu, Kencho (Translator)

Book ID: 107574113
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 174 KB
Series: Penguin Classics
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780804838238

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✦ Synopsis

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 ordered court culture which made such a masterpiece possible.

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