[源氏物語 与謝野晶子訳 01] • The Tale of Genji · Penguin Classics
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- Authors
- Shikibu, Murasaki
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Tags
- classics , romance
- ISBN
- 9780142437148
- Date
- 1008-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 5.31 MB
- Lang
- en
See an alternate cover edition [ **here** ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23705015-the-tale-of-genji).
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.