Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia |
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| Authors: | Johnson, Samuel |
| Publisher: | Melville House |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC019000, FIC004000, FIC052000 |
| ISBN: | 9781612192345, Related ISBNs: 1612192343, 1933633441, 9781612192345, 9781933633442 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 208, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
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His chief amusement was to picture to himself that world which he had never seen, to place himself in various conditions, to be entangled in imaginary difficulties, and to be engaged in wild adventures....
The other great book by the man who wrote the dictionary: This is Dr. Johnson's beautiful, engaging, and ultimately inspiring story of a royal brother and sister who escape the castle and, travelling in disguise, search for a way to feel more useful to society.
It leads to a years-long adventure amongst poor people and rich men, great intellectuals and merchants, holy men and ruthless warriors. It is an eye-opening experience that shakes the siblings to their core and ultimately turns into the most sublimely wise and moving works that Johnson ever wrote, not to mention a masterpiece of English Literature.
The Art of The Novella Series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
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