by Samuel Johnson · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420605173
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«La historia de Rásselas, príncipe de Abisinia» is the philosophical novel by Samuel Johnson, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Rásselas, son of the king of Abyssinia, lives confined in a happy valley until he decides to see the world. With his sister Nekayah, the maid Pekuah and the poet Imlac, he travels to Egypt and mixes with different social classes. The characters discover the difficulty of achieving full satisfaction.
Work originally published in 1759; it corresponds to number 1517 of Alianza's El Libro de Bolsillo collection.
For readers of eighteenth-century classics and philosophical fiction seeking a moral fable about the search for happiness.
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".
