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The tale of Genji

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Murasaki Shikibu, b. 978?
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Japanese
Published:	New York, N.Y. : Knopf, 1992.
Series:	Everyman's library
Subjects:	Japan > Social life and customs > To 1600 > Fiction. Parables. Romance fiction > Japan.
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Item Description:	Translation of : Genji monogatari.
Physical Description:	xxv, 1184 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	0679417389 9780679417385
Author Notes:	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.