num_pages: 316
description: Rasselas allegorizes the irresolvable question - where can happiness be found? Johnson sends Rasselas and his companions on a search outside their Utopian community for happiness, but the band discovers only the continual conflict between desire and possibility. Knight's Dinarbus continues the quest, adding issues of cultural, gender and class difference, to inquire if the "choice of life" is equally available to everyone.
language: English
title: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia/Dinarbas
titlecomplete: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia/Dinarbas
genres: Fiction, Classics, English Literature, 18th Century, British Literature, Philosophy, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 6353
places: East Africa, Abyssinia, Africa, Ethiopia
publisher: Everymans Library