Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia
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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Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia
June 30, 2005, Kessinger Publishing
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The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia
June 1993, Oxford University Press
0198319045 9780198319047
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"YE who liften with credulity to the whifpers of fancy, and purfue with eagernefs the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promifes of youth, and that the deficiencies of the prefent day will be fupplied by the morrow ; attend to the hiftory of Raffelas prince of Abiffinia."
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| June 7, 2021 | Edited by AgentSapphire | Merge works |
| January 24, 2021 | Edited by LeadSongDog | Edited without comment. |
| August 6, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
| April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs. |
| April 29, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record. |