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The Pillow Book
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The Pillow Book

Genres
Fiction: literary and general non-genre · Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general · Classic fiction: literary and general · Fiction in translation
2006
first published in English
Japanese
original language
2
edition in English
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pages

A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the TALE OF GENJI, this is one of the major Japanese Classics.

Editions

2 editions · sort: newest
The Pillow BookThe Pillow BookPenguin978-01-4190-694-297801419069422006-11-30English (United Kingdom)—E-book
The Pillow BookThe Pillow BookPenguin Classics978-01-4044-806-197801404480612006-11-30English (United Kingdom)400Softcover

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