by Samuel Johnson · Ediciones del Viento, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415374237
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Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia, lives in a secluded, paradisiacal valley where all his desires are met and pain is unknown. However, the young prince begins to wonder about the outside world and, together with his sister Nekayah, manages to escape his golden prison to see the world and seek true happiness. This work is a synthesis of Johnson's ethical and aesthetic ideas. It is neither a novel nor an essay, but a parable of rationalist humanism, a "conte philosophique."
Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The work for which he is best known is his 42,733-entry Dictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".
