Full name: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon

Author: Sei Shonagon Year: 1002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Non Fiction, History Culture: Japan Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Google Books Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140448061 9780231073370 0140448063 0231073372

A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the TALE OF GENJI, this is one of the major Japanese Classics. Similar books: The Underground Railroad by William Still The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece by Gustav Schwab The Complete World of Greek Mythology by Richard Buxton A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe The War That Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander The Classical World by Robin Lane Fox The People of the Abyss by Jack London Black Athena by Martin Bernal The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant From the Gracchi to Nero by H. H. Scullard Tacitus on Germany by Tacitus Ancient Greece by Sarah B. Pomeroy Classical Mythology by Stephen Harris The History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours Classical Myth by Barry B. Powell An Account of Egypt by Herodotus Ad Infinitum by Nicholas Ostler Myths of the Norsemen by H. A. Guerber