Paperback, 128 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 2000 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
The History of Rasselas
Prince of Abyssinia (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
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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.
Subjects
- 16th to 18th century fiction
- Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
- Fiction
- 1709-1784
- Johnson, Samuel,
- Literary
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Literature: Classics
- Fiction / Literary