Review: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
User Review - Ann - GoodreadsA book about happiness. Who is happy and who is unhappy. Overall one could say that the protagonists in the book have a rather gloomy look on life as they found no one to be happy. And ended up from ... Read full review
Review: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
User Review - Kyle Fisher - GoodreadsThis book had no plot of any kind. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good "no plot" book, where most of the action appears in the protagonist's psyche, but there was none of that in this particular book ... Read full review
Review: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
User Review - James - GoodreadsGreat little morality tale indicative of the frustrated stoicism of Johnson's age, a stoicism that faced a language of scientific precision and a resurgence of epicureanism as concepts of good-living ... Read full review
Review: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
User Review - J. Alfred - GoodreadsI like old Dr. Johnson. Rasselas, like Candide, is barely-disguised philosophy: from it, one can discern that one ought not to worry about happiness, as it is more or less an illusion. One should ... Read full review
Review: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
User Review - Melissa Blanco - GoodreadsIn my opinion, there is just too much nothing going on in this book; the story is not very interesting and it doesn't have much action. Definiteley not a book I recommend. Read full review
Review: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
User Review - Amy Wolf - GoodreadsI enjoy reading classics & difficult books, but this one was quite a slog to get through. Johnson's ornate 18th-century style is turgid, and I just wasn't that interested in Rasselas himself. Read full review
Review: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
User Review - Tim Ward - GoodreadsA lovely, short, rambling book about how one might seek happiness, probably without finding it. Read full review
Review: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
User Review - Gwen - GoodreadsIt's a lot like Candide on the surface, but I prefer Voltaire and the satire over this one. This feels like it's best summed up with the phrase "rich people problems." Read full review
Review: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
User Review - Dawn - GoodreadsWhile this is a very simplistic book I really enjoyed the underlying message of this book. A bit like a grownups fairytale. Read full review
Review: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
User Review - Wendy - GoodreadsPretty decent tale of a prince who escapes his father's kingdom with his sister and mentor. Enjoyable enough, though with no real direction... Read full review
