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product_id: 288787649
title: "The Tale of Genji: The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel"
brand: "murasaki shikibu"
price: "VT4860"
currency: VUV
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category: "books"
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# The Tale of Genji: The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel

**Brand:** murasaki shikibu
**Price:** VT4860
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- **What is this?** The Tale of Genji: The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel by murasaki shikibu
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The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel--written a thousand years ago and one of the enduring classics of world literature.  Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel-...

## Features

- ISBN-13: 9784805314647

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