# The Tale of Genji

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- Book: [The Tale of Genji](https://www.bookquiver.com/murasaki-shikibu/the-tale-of-genji) ([The Tale of Genji.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/murasaki-shikibu/the-tale-of-genji.md))
- Authors: [Murasaki Shikibu](https://www.bookquiver.com/murasaki-shikibu)
- Publisher: everyman_s_library
- ISBN: 978-06-7941-738-5
- Pages: 1224
- Published: 1993-01-11
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the world’s first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian...