The Tale of Genji
Subtitle: A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guide (Tuttle Publishing))
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780804833318
Subjects: Prose & writers: classical, early & medieval; Sagas; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Japanese; Fiction; Asian - General
First sentence: Genji Monogatari is, many agree, the world's oldest novel, written a thousand years ago, but almost totally unknown to Western readers until the appearance of the fine translations of Arthur Waley and Edward G. Seidensticker in this century.