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| #147192 in Books | Samuel Johnson | 2009-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.00 x.60 x7.70l,.35 | File Name: 019922997X | 208 pages | The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A superior literary work|By HH|"Rasselas" is an apologue about happiness. It is worth reading for Johnson's very fine prose alone. While the story is thematically similar to Voltaire's "Candide" – both concern young men travelling in the company of honored teachers, encountering and examining human suffering in an attempt to determine the root of happiness – thei||| “Jessica Richard’s engaging new edition of Rasselas for Broadview provides everything needed to bring into focus the paradoxical nature of Samuel Johnson’s achievement in that slender masterpiece. As this edition makes clear, John
Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the "happy valley" in order to make their "choice of life." By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they come to understand the nature of happiness, and value it more highly. Their travels and enquiries raise important practical and philosophical questions concerning many aspects of the human condition, including the business of a poet, the stability of reason, the immortality of the soul, and how to find ...
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