When was The Tale of Genji written?

Considered the oldest full novel in the world, The Tale of Genji was written in Japan toward the start of the eleventh century.

When was the Koran written? The Koran existed first in oral form as a series of revelations recited by the prophet Muhammad (570-632), founder of Islam. His followers wrote down or committed to memory the individual surahs, or…
What are the last words of A Christmas Carol? "And so, as Tiny Tim observed, 'God Bless us, Every One!' "
What was Pip’s real name in Great Expectations? Philip Pirrip was Pip's real name in Great Expectations.
How many copies of Gone with the Wind have been sold? Margaret Mitchell's 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner Gone with the Wind has been translated into 27 languages and has sold over 20 million copies.
Did Alice Walker start out by writing fiction or poetry? The first published work of the poet and novelist Alice Walker was a book of poetry: Once: Poems (1968). She followed up soon after, however, with a novel: The Third Life of Grange…
What sets off the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon at the beginning of Homer’s The Iliad (ninth century B.C.)? Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Greek armies at Troy, is forced to return a captive woman named Chryseis in order to stop a pestilence sent by the god Apollo at the beginning of Homer's…