Author: Murasaki Shikibu
Year: 1008
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Classic, Romance
Cultures: Japan, Asia
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9780142437148
9781619493568
014243714X
161949356X |
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Written in the eleventh century, this portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world's first novel.
The Tale of Genji is a very long romance, running to fifty-four chapters and describing the court life of Heian Japan, from the tenth century into the eleventh.
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