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The Tale of Genji: Introduction by Edward G. Seidensticker

The Tale of Genji: Introduction by Edward G. Seidensticker

Murasaki Shikibu
Seidensticker, Edward G.
Seidensticker, Edward G.

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $50.00

ISBN10: 0679417389
ISBN13: 9780679417385
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Jan 11 1993
Pages: 1224
Weight: 2.41
Height: 2.19 Width: 5.08 Depth: 8.44
Language: English

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 greatest periods in Japanese literature, and The Tale of Genji is not only the unquestioned prose masterpiece of that period but also the most lively and absorbing account we have of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordered court culture that made such a masterpiece possible.

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