The Tale of Genji

See an alternate cover edition(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23705015-the-tale-of-genji) here . Written in the eleventh century, this portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world's first novel. The Tale of Genji is a very long romance, running to fifty-four chapters and describing the court life of Heian Japan, from the tenth century into the eleventh.