Rasselas was written by Samuel Johnson in the year 1759, when his age was fifty. He had written his London in 1738; his Vanity of Human Wishes in 1740; his Rambler between March, 1750, and March, 1752. Rasselas was written in the evenings of one week, and sent to press while being written. Johnson earned by it a hundred pounds, with p. 6twenty-five pounds more for a second edition. It was published in March or April; Johnson never read it after it had been published until more than twenty years afterwards. Then, finding it in a chaise with Boswell, he took it up and read it eagerly.
- ISBN10 1304060314
- ISBN13 9781304060310
- Publish Date 22 May 2013
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- Publish Country GB
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