The Tale of Genji

By (author): "Royall Tyler, Murasaki Shikibu"
Publish Date: 1008
The Tale of Genji
ISBN014243714X
ISBN139780142437148
AsinThe Tale of Genji
CharactersGenji, Fujitsubo, To no Chujo, Murasaki, Yugiri
Original title???? [Genji Monogatari]
Series???? ?????? #1-56
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.