This volume brings together three of Johnson's longest fictional pieces, works which embody different literary genres but share unusual similarities in some of their principle themes and emphases. "Rasselas", perhaps the most popular of Johnson's publications, is a philosophical tale that encompasses the full range of Johnson's thinking on moral, psychological and literary matters. It is considered by many to be central to an understanding of Johnson and his age. "The Vision of Theodore", a moral allegory, and "The Fountains", a fairy tale, demonstrate clearly the variety of Johnson's narrative skills. The three works are introduced and annotated by Gwin J. Kolb, a recognized authority on "Rasselas", and the texts reflect Kolb's examination of pertinent materials. The introductions cover a wider range of topics than has been addressed in previous editions, and the historical notes comprise the largest body of glosses that has accompanied the three pieces.
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Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Samuel Johnson, Happy Valley, Picture of Human Life, Choice of Hercules, Miss Williams, Mount Plinlimmon, Lady Lilinet, Description of the East, Life of Milton, Mountain of Existence, New World, Ottoman Empire, Samuel Clarke, Elizabeth Carter, Paradise Lost, Sir Thomas Browne, Arthur Sherbo, Bowen's Geography, Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, Edward Brown, Giuseppe Baretti, Joseph Warton, Life of Cowley, Natural History, Seneca's Morals New!
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Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Samuel Johnson, Happy Valley, Picture of Human Life, Choice of Hercules, Miss Williams, Mount Plinlimmon, Lady Lilinet, Description of the East, Life of Milton, Mountain of Existence, New World, Ottoman Empire, Samuel Clarke, Elizabeth Carter, Paradise Lost, Sir Thomas Browne, Arthur Sherbo, Bowen's Geography, Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, Edward Brown, Giuseppe Baretti, Joseph Warton, Life of Cowley, Natural History, Seneca's Morals New!
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- A Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 15 (The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel) by Samuel Johnson on 8 pages
- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Penguin English Library) by Samuel Johnson on 7 pages
- The Fountains: A Fairy Tale by Samuel Johnson on 5 pages
- A Voyage To Abyssinia by Father Lobo in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 80
- A Voyage to Abyssinia by Jeronimo Lobo in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 80
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- Selected Essays (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804 (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Srinivas Aravamudan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Nicola Bown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Pirate by Walter Scott in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 18: Johnson on the English Language (The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel) by Samuel Johnson in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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