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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Penguin Classics
Publication date November 1, 2002
Pages 1216
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780142437148
ISBN-10 014243714X
Dimensions 2 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight 3.35 lbs.
Original list price $32.00
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Summary
The first translation of the Japanese masterpiece in a generation introduces modern readers to this brilliant account of courtly life in medieval Japan, in an edition that also features line drawings, notes, glossaries, maps, character lists, and chronologies. Reprint.
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Paperback
Book cover for 9780142437148 Book cover for 9780143039495 Book cover for 9780533074051
 
Reprint edition from Penguin Classics (February 28, 2006)
9780143039495 | details & prices | 319 pages | 5.25 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.52 lbs | List price $16.00
About: The first translation of the Japanese masterpiece in a generation introduces modern readers to this brilliant account of courtly life in medieval Japan, in an edition that also features line drawings, notes, glossaries, maps, character lists, and chronologies.
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Reprint edition from Penguin Classics (November 1, 2002)
9780142437148 | details & prices | 1216 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 2.00 in. | 3.35 lbs | List price $32.00
About: The classic novel of court life in tenth and eleventh-century Japan centers on the exploits of a nobleman known as the shining Genji, son of an emperor, and those of Kaoru, grandson of Genji's best friend.
With Murasaki Shikibu, Jack Nirenstein | from Vantage Pr (May 1, 1989); titled "The Only Way to Run"
9780533074051 | details & prices | List price $12.95
This edition also contains The Only Way to Run
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Prebinding
Book cover for 9780606369282
 
from Turtleback Books (February 28, 2006)
9780606369282 | details & prices | List price $28.20

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