Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaRasselas was written by Samuel Johnson in the year 1759, when his age was...
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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

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Author: Johnson, Samuel,1709-1784
Format: eBook
Language: English

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Rasselas was written by Samuel Johnson in the year 1759, when his age was fifty. He had written his London in 1738; his Vanity of Human Wishes in 1740; his Rambler between March, 1750, and March, 1752. In 1755 his Dictionary had appeared, and Dublin, by giving him its honorary LL.D., had enabled his friends to call him Doctor Johnson. His friends were many, and his honour among men was great. He owed them to his union of intellectual power with unflinching probity. But he had worked hard, battling against the wolf without, and the black dog withinpoverty and hypochondria. He was still poor, though his personal wants did not exceed a hundred pounds a year. His wife had been seven years dead, and he missed her sorely. His old mother, who lived to the age of ninety, died poor in January of this year, 1759. In her old age, Johnson had sought to help her from his earnings. At her death there were some little debts, and there were costs of burial. That he might earn enough to pay them he wrote Rasselas. Rasselas was written in the evenings of one week, and sent to press while being written. Johnson earned by it a hundred pounds, with p. 6twenty-five pounds more for a second edition. It was published in March or April; Johnson never read it after it had been published until more than twenty years afterwards. Then, finding it in a chaise with Boswell, he took it up and read it eagerly. This is one of Johnsons letters to his mother, written after he knew that her last illness had come upon her. It is dated about ten days before her death. The Miss referred to in it was a faithful friend. Miss was his home name for an affectionate step-daughter, Lucy Porter: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 652
Author: Johnson, Samuel
Release Date: Sep 1, 1996
Format: eBook
Language: English

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