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Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Genji

Richard Bowring

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.

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