Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson

Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson
Author: Wendy Laura Belcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019979331X

Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Illustrated

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Illustrated
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2020-11-07
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, originally titled The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, though often abbreviated to Rasselas, is an apologue about bliss and ignorance by Samuel Johnson. The book's original working title was "The Choice of Life". The book was first published in April 1759 in England. Early readers considered Rasselas to be a work of philosophical and practical importance and critics often remark on the difficulty of classifying it as a novel.