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**The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel—written a thousand years ago and one of the enduring classics of world literature.**
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Earnest, prestige, grave and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 302
- Publisher
- Kadokawa Shoten, Kawade Shobo, Shōgakkan
- Editions
- 121
- Language
- Japanese, German, pan, Russian
- ISBN
- 9784062521055
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