Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Thousands of incredible audiobooks and podcasts to take wherever you go.
Immerse yourself in a world of storytelling with the Plus Catalogue - unlimited listening to thousands of select audiobooks, podcasts and Audible Originals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia cover art

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

By: Samuel Johnson
Narrated by: Graham Scott
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Buy Now for £16.99

Buy Now for £16.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

Beauty and the Beast cover art
Northanger Abbey & The History of England and Persuasion & Poems cover art
Plato's Phaedrus cover art
Joseph Andrews cover art
Plato's Symposium cover art
The Vicar of Wakefield cover art
Erewhon cover art
Vicar of Wakefield cover art
Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal cover art
The Initiate cover art
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates cover art
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini cover art
The Coming Race cover art
Northanger Abbey cover art
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus cover art
Frankenstein cover art

Summary

Young prince Rasselas is discontented with life in the idyllic Happy Valley, where the children of the King of Abyssinia are confined for life amid every pleasure that the heart could desire. Along with his sister Nekayah, and his friend the poet Imlac, Rasselas escapes the Valley to explore the world and the human condition, so that they may each make their own choice of life. As they encounter different classes of people and modes of life, they come to understand better the elusive nature of happiness.

Public Domain (P)2023 Voices of Today

What listeners say about Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.