Rasselas

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Hubert Robert and Giovanni Paolo Panini. A prince kept all his life in a valley where every wish is granted escapes to find out what makes people happy, and reaches no conclusion at all. Johnson wrote it in the evenings of one week to pay for his mother's funeral, and never revised it. It is the most cheerful book ever writ...