by Samuel Johnson · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140431087
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«The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia» is Samuel Johnson's philosophical novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (157 pages, in English).
Rasselas, prince of an idyllic valley in Abyssinia, leaves that paradise with his companions to travel to Egypt and observe how people live. His pilgrimage in search of happiness gives rise to dialogues on poetry, marriage, madness or flying machines, in a parable that reflects on the human condition.
This edition includes an introduction and editing by D. J. Enright; the work was originally published in 1759.
Aimed at readers of classics and philosophical literature, with a regular presence in study programmes.
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".
