The appendices to this Broadview edition include reviews and biographies, selections from the sequel Dinarbas (1790), and the complete text of Elizabeth Pope Whatelyโs The Second Part of the History of Rasselas (1835). Selections from Johnsonโs translation of the travel narrative A Voyage to Abyssinia, as well as his Oriental tales in the Rambler, are also included, along with another popular tale, Joseph Addisonโs โThe Vision of Mirzah,โ and selections from Lady Mary Wortley Montaguโs Turkish Embassy Letters.
Jessica Richard is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University.