Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, The History of
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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, The History of, a didactic romance by Dr
Johnson, published 1759. It is an essay on the ‘choice of life’, a phrase repeated throughout the work, usually in italics. Rasselas, a son of the emperor of Abyssinia, weary of the joys of the ‘happy valley’ where the inhabitants know only ‘the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose’, escapes to Egypt, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled old philosopher Imlac. Here they study the various conditions of men's lives, and after a few incidents of no great importance resolve to return to Abyssinia, in a ‘conclusion, in which nothing is concluded’. The charm of the work lies in its wise and humane melancholy, stressing that happiness is unobtainable, and demonstrating that philosophers, hermits, and the wealthy all fail to achieve it.
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