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Rasselas:Prince of Abyssinia电子书

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作       者:Samuel Johnson

出  版  社:Dead Dodo Classic Press

出版时间:2015-11-12

字       数:18.2万

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While the story is thematically similar to Candide by Voltaire, also published early in 1759 – both concern young men travelling in the company of honoured teachers, encountering and examining human suffering in an attempt to determine the root of happiness – their root concerns are distinctly different. Voltaire was very directly satirising the widely read philosophical work by Gottfried Leibniz, particularly the Theodicee, in which Leibniz asserts that the world, no matter how we may perceive it, is necessarily the "best of all possible worlds". In contrast the question Rasselas confronts most directly is whether or not humanity is essentially capable of attaining happiness. Writing as a devout Christian, Johnson makes through his characters no blanket attacks on the viability of a religious response to this question, as Voltaire does, and while the story is in places light and humorous, it is not a piece of satire, as is Candide.
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RASSELAS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I: DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY

CHAPTER II: THE DISCONTENT OF RASSELAS IN THE HAPPY VALLEY

CHAPTER III: THE WANTS OF HIM THAT WANTS NOTHING

CHAPTER IV: THE PRINCE CONTINUES TO GRIEVE AND MUSE

CHAPTER V: THE PRINCE MEDITATES HIS ESCAPE

CHAPTER VI: A DISSERTATION ON THE ART OF FLYING

CHAPTER VII: THE PRINCE FINDS A MAN OF LEARNING

CHAPTER VIII: THE HISTORY OF IMLAC

CHAPTER IX: THE HISTORY OF IMLAC (CONTINUED)

CHAPTER X: IMLAC’S HISTORY (CONTINUED)—A DISSERTATION UPON POETRY

CHAPTER XI: IMLAC’S NARRATIVE (CONTINUED)—A HINT OF PILGRIMAGE

CHAPTER XII: THE STORY OF IMLAC (CONTINUED)

CHAPTER XIII: RASSELAS DISCOVERS THE MEANS OF ESCAPE

CHAPTER XIV: RASSELAS AND IMLAC RECEIVE AN UNEXPECTED VISIT

CHAPTER XV: THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS LEAVE THE VALLEY, AND SEE MANY WONDERS

CHAPTER XVI: THEY ENTER CAIRO, AND FIND EVERY MAN HAPPY

CHAPTER XVII: THE PRINCE ASSOCIATES WITH YOUNG MEN OF SPIRIT AND GAIETY

CHAPTER XVIII: THE PRINCE FINDS A WISE AND HAPPY MAN

CHAPTER XIX: A GLIMPSE OF PASTORAL LIFE

CHAPTER XX: THE DANGER OF PROSPERITY

CHAPTER XXI: THE HAPPINESS OF SOLITUDE—THE HERMIT’S HISTORY

CHAPTER XXII: THE HAPPINESS OF A LIFE LED ACCORDING TO NATURE

CHAPTER XXIII: THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETWEEN THEM THE WORK OF OBSERVATION

CHAPTER XXIV: THE PRINCE EXAMINES THE HAPPINESS OF HIGH STATIONS

CHAPTER XXV: THE PRINCESS PURSUES HER INQUIRY WITH MORE DILIGENCE THAN SUCCESS

CHAPTER XXVI: THE PRINCESS CONTINUES HER REMARKS UPON PRIVATE LIFE

CHAPTER XXVII: DISQUISITION UPON GREATNESS

CHAPTER XXVIII: RASSELAS AND NEKAYAH CONTINUE THEIR CONVERSATION

CHAPTER XXIX: THE DEBATE ON MARRIAGE (CONTINUED)

CHAPTER XXX: IMLAC ENTERS, AND CHANGES THE CONVERSATION

CHAPTER XXXI: THEY VISIT THE PYRAMIDS

CHAPTER XXXII: THEY ENTER THE PYRAMID

CHAPTER XXXIII: THE PRINCESS MEETS WITH AN UNEXPECTED MISFORTUNE

CHAPTER XXXIV: THEY RETURN TO CAIRO WITHOUT PEKUAH

CHAPTER XXXV: THE PRINCESS LANGUISHES FOR WANT OF PEKUAH

CHAPTER XXXVI: PEKUAH IS STILL REMEMBERED. THE PROGRESS OF SORROW

CHAPTER XXXVII: THE PRINCESS HEARS NEWS OF PEKUAH

CHAPTER XXXVIII: THE ADVENTURES OF THE LADY PEKUAH

CHAPTER XXXIX: THE ADVENTURES OF PEKUAH (CONTINUED)

CHAPTER XL: THE HISTORY OF A MAN OF LEARNING

CHAPTER XLI: THE ASTRONOMER DISCOVERS THE CAUSE OF HIS UNEASINESS

CHAPTER XLII: THE OPINION OF THE ASTRONOMER IS EXPLAINED AND JUSTIFIED

CHAPTER XLIII: THE ASTRONOMER LEAVES IMLAC HIS DIRECTIONS

CHAPTER XLIV: THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION

CHAPTER XLV: THEY DISCOURSE WITH AN OLD MAN

CHAPTER XLVI: THE PRINCESS AND PEKUAH VISIT THE ASTRONOMER

CHAPTER XLVII: THE PRINCE ENTERS, AND BRINGS A NEW TOPIC

CHAPTER XLVIII: IMLAC DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE OF THE SOUL

CHAPTER XLIX: THE CONCLUSION, IN WHICH NOTHING IS CONCLUDED

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