History of Rasselas
by Samuel Johnson, Warren L. Fleischauer, Félix Paknadel, Octavie Belot, and James MacAulay
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This short novel is a satire on the philosophical stories popular at the time, such as Voltaire’s Candide. A young man is accompanied on his travels by an older wiser teacher, who explains various situations they encounter in terms of happiness or otherwise.
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Ethiopia, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Princes, Fiction, Happiness, Manners and customs in fiction, Philosophy in fiction, Kings and rulers, Authors, Poetry, Gift books, Correspondence, reminiscences, Specimens, Essays, Biography, Translations into Spanish, English satire and humor, General, Fiction - General, Non-Classifiable, Novelty, Satire, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, psychological, Biographies & autobiographies, English, Scottish, & welsh fiction, Irish, Scottish fiction & literature classics, Literary styles & movements - fiction, Travel & transportation - fictionShowing 11 featured editions. View all 224 editions?
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The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia
June 1993, Oxford University Press
0198319045 9780198319047
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History of Rasselas
June 1962, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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0812050703 9780812050707
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""YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the histor""
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