A prince escapes the Happy Valley to search the world for a way of life that truly satisfies.
Books that mention Rasselas (11)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: “Laurence seemed to suspect that something was brewing in her mind, for after taking several brisk turns about the room, he faced round on her, speaking so abruptly that Rasselas tumbled face downward on the floor.”
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: “I saw a girl sitting on a stone bench near; she was bent over a book, on the perusal of which she seemed intent: from where I stood I could see the title--it was "Rasselas;" a name that struck me as strange, and consequently attractive.”
Middlemarch by George Eliot: “He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it.”
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot: “Beauties of the Spectator," "Rasselas," "Economy of Human Life," "Gregory's Letters,"--she knew the sort of matter that was inside all these; the "Christian Year,"--that seemed to be a hymnbook, and she laid it down again; but _Thomas à Kempis?”
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: “His sight, like the wings in Rasselas, though useless to him for his grand purpose, sufficed for this strait, and he found that when a little practice should have hardened his palms against blistering he would be able to work with ease.”
Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells: “Then I remember also a translation of Voltaire's "Candide," and "Rasselas;" and, vast book though it was, I really believe I read, in a muzzy sort of way of course, from end to end, and even with some reference now and then to the Atlas, Gibbon--in twelve volumes.”
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell: “Fetch me ‘Rasselas,’ my dear, out of the book-room.”
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: “s an avid newspaper reader and kept up with some of the best literature imported from London in the 1760s, including Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield and Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas, as well as gothic romance novels.”
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “Directly she read Rasselas, enlarged and swollen sentences formed on the tip of her childish pen in the manner of Dr.”
The Pirate by Walter Scott: “I have possessed the regulation of the weather and the distribution of the seasons. The sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction; the clouds, at my command, have poured forth their waters. RASSELAS.”
Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope: “And then she went on with the history of "Rasselas" in his happy valley, by which study Mrs. Thomas intended to initiate her into that course of novel-reading which has become necessary for a British lady.”