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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia-Samuel Johnson

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia-Samuel Johnson

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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson.

In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the Happy Valley in search of that triad of eighteenth-century aspiration - life, liberty and happiness. According to that quirky authority, James Boswell, Johnson penned his only work of prose fiction in a handful of days to cover the cost of his mother's funeral. The stylistic elegance of the book and its wide-ranging philosophical concerns give no hint of haste or superficiality. Among other still burning issues Johnson's characters pursue questions of education, colonialism, the nature of the soul and even climate alteration.

Featured on Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson.

Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).

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