这本书对后世产生了深远的影响,频频出现在各种文学作品中,包括《简爱》《小妇人》《米德尔马契》等等。据说作者写作此书只用了一个星期,是为了支付母亲葬礼的费用。
这是一部脍炙人口的探索人生问题的小说或东方传奇故事。此书原名《生活的选择》,讲述了一个年轻王子在漫游中探寻幸福的故事。作者深刻的思想使得此书成为一本值得一读再读的经典之作。
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY
- CHAPTER II THE DISCONTENT OF RASSELAS IN THE HAPPY VALLEY
- CHAPTER III THE WANTS OF HIM THAT WANTS NOTHING
- CHAPTER IV THE PRINCE CONTINUES TO GRIEVE AND MUSE
- CHAPTER V THE PRINCE MEDITATES HIS ESCAPE
- CHAPTER VI A DISSERTATION ON THE ART OF FLYING
- CHAPTER VII THE PRINCE FINDS A MAN OF LEARNING
- CHAPTER VIII THE HISTORY OF IMLAC
- CHAPTER IX THE HISTORY OF IMLAC (continued)
- CHAPTER X IMLAC’S HISTORY (continued)—A DISSERTATION UPON POETRY
- CHAPTER XI IMLAC’S NARRATIVE (continued)—A HINT OF PILGRIMAGE
- CHAPTER XII THE STORY OF IMLAC (continued)
- CHAPTER XIII RASSELAS DISCOVERS THE MEANS OF ESCAPE
- CHAPTER XIV RASSELAS AND IMLAC RECEIVE AN UNEXPECTED VISIT
- CHAPTER XV THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS LEAVE THE VALLEY, AND SEE MANY WONDERS
- CHAPTER XVI THEY ENTER CAIRO, AND FIND EVERY MAN HAPPY
- CHAPTER XVII THE PRINCE ASSOCIATES WITH YOUNG MEN OF SPIRIT AND GAIETY
- CHAPTER XVIII THE PRINCE FINDS A WISE AND HAPPY MAN
- CHAPTER XIX A GLIMPSE OF PASTORAL LIFE
- CHAPTER XX THE DANGER OF PROSPERITY
- CHAPTER XXI THE HAPPINESS OF SOLITUDE—THE HERMIT’S HISTORY
- CHAPTER XXII THE HAPPINESS OF A LIFE LED ACCORDING TO NATURE
- CHAPTER XXIII THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETWEEN THEM THE WORK OF OBSERVATION
- CHAPTER XXIV THE PRINCE EXAMINES THE HAPPINESS OF HIGH STATIONS
- CHAPTER XXV THE PRINCESS PURSUES HER INQUIRY WITH MORE DILIGENCE THAN SUCCESS
- CHAPTER XXVI THE PRINCESS CONTINUES HER REMARKS UPON PRIVATE LIFE
- CHAPTER XXVII DISQUISITION UPON GREATNESS
- CHAPTER XXVIII RASSELAS AND NEKAYAH CONTINUE THEIR CONVERSATION
- CHAPTER XXIX THE DEBATE ON MARRIAGE (continued)
- CHAPTER XXX IMLAC ENTERS, AND CHANGES THE CONVERSATION
- CHAPTER XXXI THEY VISIT THE PYRAMIDS
- CHAPTER XXXII THEY ENTER THE PYRAMID
- CHAPTER XXXIII THE PRINCESS MEETS WITH AN UNEXPECTED MISFORTUNE
- CHAPTER XXXIV THEY RETURN TO CAIRO WITHOUT PEKUAH
- CHAPTER XXXV THE PRINCESS LANGUISHES FOR WANT OF PEKUAH
- CHAPTER XXXVI PEKUAH IS STILL REMEMBERED. THE PROGRESS OF SORROW
- CHAPTER XXXVII THE PRINCESS HEARS NEWS OF PEKUAH
- CHAPTER XXXVIII THE ADVENTURES OF THE LADY PEKUAH
- CHAPTER XXXIX THE ADVENTURES OF PEKUAH (continued)
- CHAPTER XL THE HISTORY OF A MAN OF LEARNING
- CHAPTER XLI THE ASTRONOMER DISCOVERS THE CAUSE OF HIS UNEASINESS
- CHAPTER XLII THE OPINION OF THE ASTRONOMER IS EXPLAINED AND JUSTIFIED
- CHAPTER XLIII THE ASTRONOMER LEAVES IMLAC HIS DIRECTIONS
- CHAPTER XLIV THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION
- CHAPTER XLV THEY DISCOURSE WITH AN OLD MAN
- CHAPTER XLVI THE PRINCESS AND PEKUAH VISIT THE ASTRONOMER
- CHAPTER XLVII THE PRINCE ENTERS, AND BRINGS A NEW TOPIC
- CHAPTER XLVIII IMLAC DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER XLIX THE CONCLUSION, IN WHICH NOTHING IS CONCLUDED
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