The Tale Of Genji (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

it looks really great with the green hard cover and the same-colour fabric bookmark insideinteresting story although some parts are a bit hard to understand (normally the poems)overall i haven't finished this book yet due to exams coming but this story is pretty attractive and i'd love to finish it asap!highly recommend to anyone interesting in Japanese culture, especially about royal life in Heian period

I have read a lot of books which cover this time in history and have read this book many times so when I saw it was available in hardcover I was really pleased. It is both a sad and hopeful story and is beautifully written. One of the things which makes it unique is the fact that it reads as if it had been written only a few years ago.

As described arrived on time, it is a big long book and will take me some time to get through, but my first impressions are good a very enjoyable read.One point it is a long book and I got the hard back at 21x13x6 cm I would have gone for the paperback as holding this on a train is tiresome.

I give the Tale of Genji itself five stars but this review is a warning about textual errors in the Everyman's Library edition of 1992. I found three in the first 50 pages or so. They are not in the Penguin 1981 edition of the same translation. The worst was a sentence that made no sense because a complete line of text in the Penguin edition (from the middle of one line to the middle of the next) had been dropped from Everyman.

Brace yourself for a Loooooooonnnnnnng book, not always easy to follow for western readers but when you're done you get a sense of achievement and you will want to read it again... yes despite the 1300+ pages.

This is not a book filled with action scenes, but its theme of loss and trying to find something, is both very powerful in its own right and quite well transferred onto the pages. It is also quite easy and sort of 'natural' to come to terms with the main protagonist's motives and cheer him success along the way.

Bought this as a present; the recipient loved it. He recommends everyone to read it.It's a long book, so best to have in this hardback version.

Very interesting book - A very good read and great for anyone fascinated in Japanese culture! Great, thanks for the item!