https://lkmnsorgedhang.blogspot.co.uk/?book= 014243714X<br />See an alternate cover edition <br /> here<br />.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.<br />
