Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji. 2 Revised edition, Paperback

Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, written in Japan in the early eleventh century, is acknowledged to be one of Japan's greatest literary achievements, and sometimes thought of as the world's first novel. This book will be useful for survey courses in Japanese and World Literature.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Richard (Selwyn College, Cambridge) Bowring
• Illustration(s): 1 Tables, unspecified; 1 Line drawings, unspecified
• Number of pages: 122
• Collection: Landmarks of World Literature (New)
• Publication date: 2003
• Dimensions: 204 x 131 x 8
• Cover type: Paperback / softback