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En édition bilingue ANGLAIS-FRANÇAIS + lecture audio intégrée: lisez Rasselas, prince d'Abyssinie en français et en anglais puis, à l'aide de votre téléphone ou de votre tablette, scannez le QR code au début de chaque chapitre, afin d'écoute la lecture de ce roman d'aventure dans sa version originale anglaise.Nombre de lecteurs s'accordent à dire qu'il est impossible de faire de la bonne littérature avec de bons sentiments. Samuel Johnson prouve le contraire, avec Rasselas, prince d'Abyssinie, et la réponse qu'il formule à la question suivante: l'humanité est-elle capable ou incapable d'atteindre le bonheur ?Arborant quelques similitudes avec Candide de Voltaire, Rasselas, prince d'Abyssinie ne fait aucune attaque générale sur la viabilité religieuse pour répondre à cette problématique. Car, à l'inverse de l'oeuvre de Voltaire, celle de Johnson n'est pas une satire, mais un apologue léger voire humoristique.D'abord intitulé Le Choix de Vie, cette fable (écrite en une semaine par Johnson pour payer l'enterrement de sa mère) narre le parcours initiatique de Rasselas, fils du roi de l'ancienne Éthiopie, enfermé dans une belle vallée jusqu'à ce que l'ordre de succession l'appelle au trône . Las des divertissements factices de l'endroit, il décide un jour de s'échapper, afin de voir le monde et chercher le bonheur. Mais après un séjour en Égypte, où ils rencontrent diverses classes sociales et quelques aventures, il perçoit la futilité de sa quête et retourne brusquement au bercail.Les premières critiques reconnurent dans Rasselas un travail philosophique et pratique de premier ordre.

The Life of Mr. Richard Savage - Son of the Earl Rivers - To which are added, the lives of Sir Francis Drake, and Admiral Blake. All written by the same author is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1767.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A unique one-volume selection of Samuel Johnson's writings on spiritual and moral topics provides an unusually inspiring portrait of the man and his thought.Most readers know Dr. Johnson (1709—1784) as the formidable compiler of his famous Dictionary and as the witty conversationalist portrayed in Boswell's Life. By contrast, this book-which draws on little-known unsigned sermons he wrote for hire for clergy friends, his private prayers and devotions, essays, poems, diaries, letters, and even key definitions from the Dictionary-offers a rare opportunity to discover Johnson's rich insight and consoling spirituality gathered in one place. Boswell observed that "He was a sincere and zealous ChristianÉ. He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality; both from a regard for the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order." This Vintage Spiritual Classics Original opens a window on the moral universe of the leading English writer of the eighteenth century.

The book "" Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

Preface to Shakespeare is textbook of Shakespeare criticism by Samuel Johnson that includes this passage:"Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species."

If you could tell your dad anything, what would it be? Steve Waugh, Trent Dalton, Samuel Johnson, Kathy Lette, John Williamson, Susie Youssef, Michala Banas, Glenn Shorrock, Matilda Brown, Joel Creasey, Shannon Noll, Michelle Law, Ben Gillies, Hilde Hinton, Normie Rowe, Mark Brandi, Brian Mannix, Julie Koh, Sara Storer, Russell Morris, Catherine Deveny, Sophie Green, Brooke Davis, Toni Tapp Coutts, Clare Wright, Danny Green, John Paul Young, Kurt Fearnley and many more ...A heartfelt, honest and very human book of letters that will make you smile and make you cry. It is the perfect gift for the dad in your life. And a reminder to say how you feel before it is too late.