Tale of Genji Scenes from the World's First Novel

"[B]rilliantly rounds out the historical record by digging far deeper than earlier biographies into treasury and diplomatic archive....Skidelsky has not only achieved a masterpiece of biographical and historical analysis, but demonstrated that Keynes attained his own stated ideal of economic thinkers as 'the trustees, not of civilization, but of the possibility of civilization.'"Shikibu, Murasaki is the author of 'Tale of Genji Scenes from the World's First Novel', published 2006 under ISBN 9780804838238 and ISBN 0804838232.