The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu (1934 Houghton Mifflin Vintage hardback) female protagonist See images for the condition

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Brought up a Protestant

against a background of Roman decadence and corrupt Eastern religion

For a history buff

The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu (1934 Houghton Mifflin Vintage hardback) female protagonist See images for the conditionCondition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and consistent use. It's a beautiful book and would be a lovely addition for a collector! See images for the condition of this book. Blurb: 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