The Tale of Genji: The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel by Murasaki Shikibu, Michael Emmerich, Kencho Suematsu

The Tale of Genji: The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel

源氏物語 #1-56

Murasaki Shikibu, Michael Emmerich, Kencho Suematsu

224 pages • first pub 1001 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel—written a thousand years ago and one of the enduring classics of world literature.Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks th...

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