From the rear cover
This is 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 as those imagined by Proust.
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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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- Title The Tale of Genji
- Author Murasaki Shikibu
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1990-06-16
- Abridged Yes
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Abridged, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780679729532 / 0679729534
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.22 x 0.81 in (20.42 x 13.26 x 2.06 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Parables, Romances
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89040606
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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