Shikibu Murasaki
The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady of the Heian court. It is universally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose narrative, perhaps the earliest true novel in the history of the ... [... more]
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The Tale of Genji
 From Amazon.com: Widely acknowledged as the world's first novel, this astonishingly lovely book was written by a court lady in Heian Japan and offers a window into that formal, mannered world. Genji, a man of passionate impulses and a lover of beauty, is [... more]
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Tale of Genji
Author: Murasaki Shikibu Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9781857151084 ISBN: 1857151089 Number Of Pages: 1184 Publication Date: 1992-12-17 [... more]
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Penguin Classics Tale Of Genji Abridged Edition
Author: Murasaki Shikibu Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 895.6314 EAN: 9780143039495 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0143039490 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: 2006-02-28 Release Date: 2006-02-28 [... more]
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Genji
Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Video Game EAN: 0711719747123 E S R B Age Rating: Rating Pending Genre: Adventure Games Is Autographed: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Model: 74123 MPN: 100730 Package Quantity: 1 Platform: PlayStation2 Release Date: 2005-09-20 UPC: 71 [... more]
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D'une lectrice du Genji
Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9782716903103 ISBN: 2716903107 Number Of Pages: 94 Publication Date: 1994-02-22 Release Date: 1994-02-22 [... more]
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The Tale of Genji: Scenes from the Worlds First Novel
Author: Murasaki Shikibu Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9784770027726 ISBN: 4770027729 Number Of Pages: 238 Publication Date: 2002-01-29 [... more]
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Genji & Heike: Selections from The Tale of Genji and The ...
not for amatures: I am not a historian or a scholar of ancient lituriture, I simply have a passion for Japan and it's history. So as a reader for fun i found it very difficult to understand, I read the version published by Stanford University Press which [... more]
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The Tale of Genji
Wonderful book: Initially I began reading the Tale of Genji after studying illustrations for it in an asian art class and hearing references to it in a Japanese history class. Two things struck me as I read it - 1) the timelessness of the novel, and 2) [... more]
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The Tale of Genji
A Tale of Three Genjis: A longtime admirer of Murasaki Shikibu's exceptional work, I fell in love with Genji first through Arthur Waley's translation, which made this admittedly exotic novel accessible to non-Japanese readers. Curious to know more about [... more]
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Penguin Classics Tale Of Genji
best of both worlds: I've read all three translations of The Tale of Genji. For those who don't know there are three translations so far, by Arthur Waley, Edward Seidensticker and this one by Taylor. All of them have their flaws. Waley's translation is [... more]
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Tale Of Genji
A Tale of Three Genjis: A longtime admirer of Murasaki Shikibu's exceptional work, I fell in love with Genji first through Arthur Waley's translation, which made this admittedly exotic novel accessible to non-Japanese readers. Curious to know more about [... more]
CDN$87.00
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