The Tale of Genji: A Norton Critical Edition

"A fluid, elegant rendition."

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Dennis Washburn's acclaimed and unabridged translation of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century literary masterpiece, widely considered the world's first novel.
  

• Editorial matter by Dennis Washburn.
  

• Fourteen background selections-from the eleventh-century The Daughter of Sugawara no Takasue to Virginia Woolf-carefully selected to increase the reader's understanding and appreciation of this nuanced and ...