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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

  • Samuel Johnson

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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.

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  • Ethiopia, fiction
  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
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  • Fiction
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  • Philosophy in fiction
  • Kings and rulers
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  • Translations into Spanish
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  • Novelty
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  • Biographies & autobiographies
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  • & welsh fiction
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About the author

  • Samuel Johnson

    18 September 1709 - 13 December 1784

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    11 ratings · 1121 works

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    Standard Ebooks

    2016

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    Agra School Book Society

    1839

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    Franklin Classics

    Oct 11, 2018

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    Kessinger Publishing

    June 30, 2005

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Oxford University Press

June 1993

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    Broadview Press

    2008

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    SMK Books

    Apr 03, 2018

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    Cassell & Co.

    1909

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    Hurst and Co.

    1800

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    Geo. Barnes & Co.

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    J. Limbird

    1824

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    Lackington, Allen

    1798

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    Het Spectrum

    1983

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    ThéoTeX

    2016

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    Whittaker

    1823

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    Chez Stassin et Zavier

    1846

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    T. Bedlington

    1831

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    Edward Lacey ...

    1838

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    A.C. McClurg and Co.

    1889

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    Bennett & Walton

    1811

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    1810

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    A new ed.

    James Miller

    1880

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    Donohue, Henneberry & Co.

    1907

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    Arlington ed.

    Hurst & Company

    1895

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    Mershon

    1901

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    New ed., with illustrations.

    C.S. Francis

    1859

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    Donohue, Henneberry & Co.

    1905

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    Yardley

    1822

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    Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, by C. Whittingham, Chiswick

    1817

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    Charles Tilt ...

    1838

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    Groombridge and sons

    1858

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    Printed for William Wilson and Co.

    1825

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    Baudry's European Library

    1840

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    the folio society

    1975

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    New ed., with illustrations.

    Blakeman and Mason

    1864

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    Lippincott

    1877

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    D. Appleton and Co.

    1854

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    Baudry

    1835

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    And sold at Paris by Theophilus Barrois, Jun. ...

    1815

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    D. Appleton

    1880

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    Charles Tilt ...

    1835

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    Appleton Century Crofts

    1962-01-01

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    Independently Published

    2019

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    1a. ed.

    Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca

    2009

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    François

    1822

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    Baudry

    1832

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    Al-Bihar

    2001

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    Hector McLean

    1819

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    2nd American ed

    S. Backus

    1809

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    New ed.

    Printed for WilliamCreech

    1789