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Book Title
Tale of Genji
Publication Name
The Tale of Genji
Title
The Tale of Genji
Author
Murasaki Shikibu
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0679729534
EAN
9780679729532
ISBN
9780679729532
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Release Date
16/06/1990
Release Year
1990
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
201mm
Item Length
131mm
Item Width
21mm
Item Weight
318g
Book Series
Vintage International
Publication Year
1990
Topic
Classics, Cultural Heritage, Literary

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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
ISBN-10
0679729534
ISBN-13
9780679729532
eBay Product ID (ePID)
679425

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Book Title
Tale of Genji
Author
Murasaki Shikibu
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Cultural Heritage, Literary
Publication Year
1990
Genre
Fiction

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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz

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Edition Description
Abridged Edition
Reviews
"Not only the world's first real novel, but one of its greatest." -- Donald Keene, Columbia University"A. triumph of authenticity and readability." -- Washington Post Book World "[Seidensticker's] translation has the ring of authority." -- The New York Times Book Review
Target Audience
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Lccn
89-040606
Dewey Decimal
Fic
Series
Vintage International Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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  • by smalice77
    Mar 07, 2013

    a beautifully written and translated boring book

    Written in the 11th century, this portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is considered as the world’s first novel. This is the story of Prince Genji son of an emperor by one of his secondary spouses. It is well written and translated. I am interested in Medieval Japan Culture and this is the reason I wanted to read this book. I was disappointed as it really tells us about the life of the aristocracy, without much reference to the life of common people, merchants, artisans and warriors. In the same way that you cannot understand French Culture by visiting Versailles where king Louis XIV was lavishly living, I do not think you can understand Japanese Culture through this book.

  • by sho-jrtevegdx
    Aug 08, 2018

    the tale of gengi very good

    very good

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