# The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

**Author(s):** Samuel Johnson
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**Genres:** literary-fiction, poetry, essays, biography, satire
**Pages:** 206
**Publisher:** James Miller
**Published:** Thu Jan 01 1880 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
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## Description

This short novel is a satire on the philosophical stories popular at the time, such as Voltaire’s Candide. A young man is accompanied on his travels by an older wiser teacher, who explains various situations they encounter in terms of happiness or otherwise.

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