The Tale of Genji: The Arthur Waley Translation of Lady Murasaki's Masterpiece with a New Foreword by Dennis Washburn Elizabeth Mills YEFIM LADYZHENSKY (1911-1982) began his

YEFIM LADYZHENSKY (1911-1982) began his career as a set designer

Davis is author of Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Changing Representations of Women in Disney's Feature Animation

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with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar

ISBN13: 9781516918164

The Tale of Genji: The Arthur Waley Translation of Lady Murasaki's Masterpiece with a New Foreword by Dennis Washburn Elizabeth Mills YEFIM LADYZHENSKY (1911-1982) began hisWhat Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. The beauty of his art has not dimmed, but like the original text itself retains the power to move and enlighten. Dennis Washburn, from his foreword Centuries before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji was already acknowledged as a classic of Japanese literature. Over the past century, this book has gained