Publié au début de l'année 1759, quelques semaines après le Candide de Voltaire, ce conte philoso...

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his siste...

In his moving essay, Samuel Johnson offers wise words on confronting grief at the loss of a loved...

The Works of the English Poets - With prefaces, biographical and critical. Vol. 25 is an unchange...

Famous Classic Book on EssaysThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally importan...

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, originally titled The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, ...

Lives that Never Grow Old

With these two volumes Princeton University Press concludes the first scholarly edition of the le...

Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islan...

This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The ...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by pas...