The Tale of the Heike (Paperback, Annotated Ed)

The Tale of the Heike is one of the masterworks of Japanese literature, ranking with The Tale of Genji in quality and prestige. Familiar in Japan for generations, first through oral narration and later through the printed page, this fourteenth-century reworking of traditional materials tells the story of the decline and final military defeat of the mighty house of Taira, reporting battlefield exploits in vivid detail, chronicling the fates of high-born ladies and other helpless victims of the times with delicate lyricism, and introducing humorous passages to leaven the comberness of the theme articulated in its famous opening lines: 'The sound of the Gion Shoja bells color of the sala flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline. The proud do not endure, thay are like a dream on a spring night; the mighty fall at last, they are as dust before the wind.' The translation is not only far more readable than earlier ones, it is also much more faithful to the content and style of the original, especially in preserving the evidence of oral narration.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1990
First published:	March 1990
Translators:	Helen Craig McCullough
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	504
Edition:	Annotated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-1803-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-1803-2
Barcode:	9780804718035

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