The Tale Of Genji (Two-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Vol 1 book block - stained, but pages and text remain unaffected.
Written over a thousand years ago in Heian-era Japan, The Tale of Genji stands as one of the world's first and most celebrated novels, chronicling the romantic and political escapades of Hikaru Genji, the son of an ancient Japanese emperor, as he navigates a glittering yet treacherous imperial court. Lady Murasaki's masterwork presents a world of exquisite refinement and hidden sorrows, painting vivid portraits of aristocratic life, clandestine love affairs, and the ever-present melancholy of impermanence through the lives of the women who orbit Genji's brilliant, restless soul. Arthur Waley's landmark English translation brought this towering achievement of world literature to Western readers for the first time in the 1920s, and it remains a work of extraordinary elegance in its own right. Waley's prose captures the lyrical, meditative quality of the original with rare sensitivity, preserving the novel's intricate emotional tapestry and its profound Buddhist themes of transience and longing. This two-volume edition, each containing three novels, invites the reader into a world so vividly realised that one question lingers long after the final page: can beauty and power ever truly coexist without consequence?
Author: Lady Murasaki
Format: Paperback
Published: 1973, Allen & Unwin, London
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Vol 1 book block - stained, but pages and text remain unaffected.
Written over a thousand years ago in Heian-era Japan, The Tale of Genji stands as one of the world's first and most celebrated novels, chronicling the romantic and political escapades of Hikaru Genji, the son of an ancient Japanese emperor, as he navigates a glittering yet treacherous imperial court. Lady Murasaki's masterwork presents a world of exquisite refinement and hidden sorrows, painting vivid portraits of aristocratic life, clandestine love affairs, and the ever-present melancholy of impermanence through the lives of the women who orbit Genji's brilliant, restless soul. Arthur Waley's landmark English translation brought this towering achievement of world literature to Western readers for the first time in the 1920s, and it remains a work of extraordinary elegance in its own right. Waley's prose captures the lyrical, meditative quality of the original with rare sensitivity, preserving the novel's intricate emotional tapestry and its profound Buddhist themes of transience and longing. This two-volume edition, each containing three novels, invites the reader into a world so vividly realised that one question lingers long after the final page: can beauty and power ever truly coexist without consequence?