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FROM: al po <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/23/01, 8:50 AM

i recently had someone ask if i knew any books that
were similar to dr. samuel johnson's "rasselas." i
believe this book was a classic from the seventeenth
century. thanks. alex

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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/23/01, 9:32 AM

At 06:49 AM 3/23/01 -0800, you wrote:
>i recently had someone ask if i knew any books that
>were similar to dr. samuel johnson's "rasselas." i
>believe this book was a classic from the seventeenth
>century. thanks. alex

Eighteenth century, actually. The most obvious top-of-the-head match
would be CANDIDE by Voltaire--an intelligent but innocent observer
thrust out into the (then) "modern" world, undergoes picaresque
adventures, is generally horrified with people and institutions he
encounters, and at last retreats back to closest approximation of
original pastoral existence as he can manage, sadder but wiser.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

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