The Tale of the Heike

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A masterpiece of world literature and epic from 12th century about samurai pride! romance! and warfare of medieval Japan. Zusammenfassung Includes speech! poetry! blank verse and song that convey its character as an oral epic! fully embracing the rich and vigorous language of the original texts. This book is illustrated with fifty-five woodcuts from the nineteenth-century artistic master! Katsushika Hokusai! and bolstered with maps! character guides! genealogies and rich annotation.

Product details

• Authors: Anonym, Anonymous, Royall Tyler, Michael Watson
• Assisted by: Royall Tyler (Translation), Michael Watson (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2013
• EAN: 9780670025138
• ISBN: 978-0-670-02513-8
• No. of pages: 784
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature