The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Junichiro Breakdown of Genji)

✍ Murasaki Shikibu 📂 Fiction 📅 2001 🏛 Viking;Penguin Group US 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB 👁 3 views

In the tradition of Robert Fagles's translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Viking presents a stunning translation of Lady Murasaki's exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan. Written in the eleventh century, The Tale of Genji is widely celebrated as the world's first novel, but as Don

The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

✍ Shikibu, Murasaki 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Penguin Group US 🌐 en-jm ⚖ 3 MB 👁 3 views

Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, written in Japan in the early eleventh century, is acknowledged to be one of Japan's greatest literary achievements, and sometimes thought of as the world's first novel. This introduction to the Genji sketches its cultural background, offers detailed analysis of

The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

✍ Shikibu, Murasaki 📂 Fiction 📅 2001 🏛 Viking;Penguin Group US 🌐 en-gb ⚖ 3 MB 👁 3 views

In the tradition of Robert Fagles's translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Viking presents a stunning translation of Lady Murasaki's exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan. Written in the eleventh century, The Tale of Genji is widely celebrated as the world's first novel, but as Don

The Tale of Genji (Tuttle Classics)

✍ Shikubu, Murasaki; Waley, Arthur (translator) 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Tuttle Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 1017 KB

Overview: Centuries before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji was already acknowledged as a classic of Japanese literature. Over the past century, this book has gained worldwide acceptance as not only the world's first novel, but as one of the greatest works of literature of all time.

The Tale of Genji

✍ Murasaki Shikibu 📂 Fiction 📅 2009;2003 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 3 MB 👁 2 views

The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of love, betrayal and death at the Imperial Court. At the core of this epic is Prince Genji, the son of an emperor, whose pa

The tale of Genji: abridged

✍ Murasaki Shikibu 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Penguin Group US 🌐 English ⚖ 311 KB

Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world's first novel—and is certainly one of its finest. Genji, the Shining Prince, son of an emperor, is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love