Tale of Genji EPUB
by Murasaki Shikibu
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In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel.
But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, a play of characters whose inner lives are as rich and changeable as those imagined by Proust.
Chief of these is "the shining Genji," the son of the emperor and a man whose passionate impulses create great turmoil in his world and very nearly destroy him.
This edition, recognized as the finest version in English, contains a dozen chapters from early in the book, carefully chosen by the translator, Edward G.
Seidensticker, with an introduction explaining the selection.
It is illustrated throughout with woodcuts from a seventeenth-century edition.
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- Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Date:06/02/2013
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- ISBN:9780307833525
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- ISBN:9780307833525