Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to Egypt, where they study the various conditions of men's lives, before returning home in a "conclusion in which nothing is concluded." Johnson's tale is not only a satire on optimism, but also an expression of truth about the human mind and its infinite capacity for hope.

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Samuel Johnson's best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic lexicon ever written and was used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, the Brontes and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This anthology includes 4,000 of the most representative, entertaining, and historically fascinating entries, covering subjects from fashion to food, science to sex, and given in full with original spelling...

This edition makes available for the first time the largest collection of unpublished material by the great eighteenth-century writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson in existence. For the revised fourth edition (1773) of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson and his amanuensis annotated over one hundred and twenty interleaved folio pages of the first edition, but the printer for unknown reasons failed to include the corrections. These pages, including hundreds of authorial additions and changes to the text, are reproduced here in facsimile, along with a transcription, an...

Third Parallel to Marriage is a life experience novel that demonstrates perseverance of love to overcome the various encounters that lead to a search for a meaningful relationship with a chosen bride. The circumstance that prevailed in urban society created an superficial standard of character which caused a deficit in education and spiritual transformation. As the man attempts to address both deficits in his life, he is confronted with the conventional discourse of persuasion. While his career is being altered by the foreign and domestic policy, he is removed from the educational system and...

" Indiscriminate Zones" incorporates specific details of events to present an explicit illustration of the social apathy which attributed to the decline of self development in context to the spiritual conscious state of equality. It highlights the points of ascension that confront the State standard of social directives that breached the constitutional right to strive for a better society. The presentation of conflicting interest gives retrospect to the interpretation of freedom as self autonomy through the government by the people."
When society and the world confederation of...