Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) by Richard Bowring

Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji (Landmarks of World Literature (New))

Richard Bowring

120 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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