Supplemented with detailed notes, glossaries, character lists, and chronologies to help the reader navigate the multigenerational narrative, this comprehensive edition presents this ancient tale in the grand style that it deserves.
An anthology of Chinese fiction, poetry, and essays written during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Sun Tzu. The art of war. Study of planning and conduct of military operations.
Written in the early eighth century, the Kojiki is considered JapanŐs first literary and historical work.
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) is the Japan's earliest novel and the most famous work in Japan's literary history.
Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu.
This new edition includes an all-new introduction by the scholar of ancient Chinese literature, John Minford.
The book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.
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