The Tale of Genji

Classic American Literature

Author: Murasaki Shikibu

See an alternate cover edition , here,.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…..Read More
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