The Tale of Genji
Abridged
by Murasaki Shikibu
319 pages· 2006· ISBN 9780143039495
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The first translation of the Japanese masterpiece in a generation introduces modern readers to this brilliant account of courtly life in medieval Japan, in an edition that also features line drawings, notes, glossaries, maps, character lists, and chronologies. Reprint.
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