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The Tale of the Heike (Penguin Classics)
Rebecca Yarros
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Description for The Tale of the Heike (Penguin Classics)
Paperback. Presents a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories. Legendary for its magnificent and vivid set battle scenes, this book is filled with intimate human dramas and emotions, contemplating Buddhist themes of suffering and separation, as well as universal insights into love, loss and loyalty. Translator(s): Tyler, Royall; Watson, Michael. Num Pages: 784 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 736.
The Tale of the Heike is Japan's great martial epic: a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories. This major and groundbreaking new Penguin translation is by Royall Tyler, acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji.
First assembled from scattered oral poems in the early fourteenth century, The Tale of the Heike is Japan's Iliad - a grand-scale depiction of the wars between the Heike and Genji clans. Legendary for its magnificent and vivid set battle scenes, it is also a work filled with intimate human dramas and emotions, contemplating Buddhist ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
705g
Number of Pages
784
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780143107262
SKU
V9780143107262
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Ref
99-15
About Rebecca Yarros
Royall Tyler, an American, is retired from the Australian National University where he taught Japanese language and literature for many years. He has a B.A. from Harvard University and a PhD. from Columbia University and has taught at Harvard, Stanford and the University of Wisconsin.
Reviews for The Tale of the Heike (Penguin Classics)
In his elegant new translation, Royall Tyler divides the text into something resembling an opera libretto, with recitatives, arias and dialogue
L.A. Times
L.A. Times