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.
The Tale of Genji
✍ Scribed by Murasaki Shikibu, c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025; Shikibu, Murasaki
- Book ID
- 108789534
- Publisher
- The University of Adelaide Library
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
The Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu; translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
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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 The Tale of Genji...widely considered the world's f