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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once."
- Cyril Connolly
(1903 - 1974),
Enemies of Promise
(1938)
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1200 pages
Edition: BOXED
Publisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN: 0670030201
Release Date: Jan 9, 1993
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
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.
| | | | Annotation
This universally acknowledged masterpiece concerns the love of Prince Genji and life in the imperial court of Kyoto.
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The Tale to be Hold
-- Ken Pham, July 15, 2002
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
The Lady Murasaki's epic romance chronicles the court life of Heian Japan from the 10th century into the 11th. For the Everyman Library edition, this spellbinding novel is introduced by Edward Seidensticker, whose translation is the fullest and most accurate English version of the Japanese classic
| |  | | | | VOLUME ONE | | Acknowledgments | vii | | List of Maps and Diagrams | x | | Introduction | xi | | The Tale of Genji, Chapters 1-33 | 1 | | VOLUME TWO | | The Tale of Genji, Chapters 34-54 | 575 | | Chronology | 1125 | | General Glossary | 1134 | | Clothing and Color | 1154 | | Offices and Titles | 1159 | | Summary of Poetic Allusions Identified in the Notes | 1169 | | Further Reading | 1173 |
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