Download or read book Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Illustrated written by Samuel Johnson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.