The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia is a poetry first published in 1759 by the classical author Samuel Johnson. Indexed in KitabiHub under Poetry, Novels, Essays & Letters, History & Biography, Philosophy & Thought, Classical Arabic Literature, it sits alongside other poetry on the same shelf.
"YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the histor"
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About the author
Samuel Johnson is part of the long Arabic literary tradition catalogued on KitabiHub. Their work appears alongside the great voices of the Nahda renaissance, the Cairo realists of the mid-twentieth century, and the new generation of writers from across the Arab world.
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