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The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
$12.78 - Save $1.42 (10%) - RRP $14.20 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Diary of Lady MurasakiThis is the diary of Lady Murasaki, the Japanese prose writer. It describes the Heian court at its apogee and offers an intimate picture of the author's life as tutor and companion to the timid Empress Shoshi. It reveals the underside of imperial splendour from a female point of view.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 07 March 1996
- Format: Paperback 144 pages
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- Categories: Autobiography: General | Contemporary Fiction | Genealogy, Heraldry, Names & Honours
- ISBN 13: 9780140435764 ISBN 10: 014043576X
- Sales rank: 185,963
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Full description for The Diary of Lady Murasaki
The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973 c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between the Emperor's consorts, with sharp criticism of Murasaki's fellow ladies-in-waiting and drunken courtiers, and telling remarks about the timid Empress and her powerful father, Michinaga. The Diary is also a work of great subtlety and intense personal reflection, as Murasaki makes penetrating insights into human psychology her pragmatic observations always balanced by an exquisite and pensive melancholy.
