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The Tale of Genji
The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of …
The Tale of the Heike
The Tale of the Heike is Japan's great martial epic: a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories. This major and groundbreaking new Penguin …
The Tale of Genji
Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world's first novel - and is certainly one of its finest. …
Japanese No Dramas
Japanese nõ theatre or the drama of 'perfected art' flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries largely through the genius of the dramatist Zeami. An intricate fusion of …
The Ise Stories
Ise monogatari is one of classical Japan's most important texts. It influenced other literary court romances like The Tale of Genji and inspired artists, playwrights, and poets …
Mistress Oriku
"e;Royall Tyler's translations are nothing short of superbcrisp, restrained, ably balancing the ribald and the profound."e;BooklistSensitive, compassionate, and …
The Castelvecchio Family
Louis Bonaparte, a younger brother of Napoleon, had an illegitimate son named Fran ois Louis de Castelvecchio. On the basis of letters and other documents this book gives an …
The Algerine Captive: The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill
The Algerine Captive tells the story of the upbringing, early career, and later enslavement of fictional Boston native, narrator Updike Underhill. The first volume chronicles …
The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity
In this annotated translation and study of an early fourteenth-century Japanese devotional picture scroll set, Royall Tyler illuminates the complex relationships between medieval …
The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill
A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive …
Japanese No Dramas
Japanese no theatre or the drama of 'perfected art' flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries largely through the genius of the dramatist Zeami. An intricate fusion of …