Author: Murasaki Shikibu (tr Edward Seidensricker)
Stock information
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: $34.95 AUD
: 9780679729532
: Random House USA Inc
: Vintage Books
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: 0.363
: 01 July 1998
: 203mm X 133mm X 21mm
: United States
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: Murasaki Shikibu (tr Edward Seidensricker)
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: Paperback
: Vintage Classics ed
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: 895.631
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: Woodcuts throughout
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Description
The abridged edition of the universally acknowledged masterpiece concerning the love of Prince Genji and life in the imperial court of Kyoto in the eleventh century. Translated by Edward Seidensticker.
Author description
Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji" "written in the eleventh century and universally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose narrative and possibly the earliest true novel in the history of the world."
