The Tale of Murasaki

Liza Dalby

earliest edition we have, 2000 Penguin Random House, 2001

"The sensitive and modest daughter of a mid-ranking court poet, Murasaki Shikibu staves off loneliness with her active imagination, telling stories about the dashing Prince Genji to her close friends. At first, they are their private entertainment, but soon Genji's amorous adventures are leaked to the public and Murasaki is thrust into the life of a kind of eleventh-century Japanese celebrity. She is compelled by a c...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

Editions we hold

Tale of Murasaki edition · 2011 · Penguin Random House · 432 pages · 9780099565253
Tale of Murasaki edition · 2003 · DIANE Publishing Company · 9780756769031
Tale of Murasaki edition · 2001 · Penguin Random House · 9780099422358
The Tale of Murasaki edition · 2001 · Anchor · 448 pages · 9780385497954
The Tale of Murasaki edition · 2000 · Nan A. Talese · 448 pages · 9780385497947

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.