The Tale of Genji: Introduction by Edward G. Seidensticker by Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Genji: Introduction by Edward G. Seidensticker

源氏物語 #1-56

Murasaki Shikibu

1224 pages first pub 1001 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the world’s first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian era (794—1185) is recognized as one of the very greates...

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