The History of Arsaces, Prince of Betlis (Hardcover, Revised ed.)

'The History of Arsaces Prince of Betlis' (1774) is an eastern fable, an Oriental anticipation of the bildungsroman in the manner of Johnson's 'Rasselas'. Written in the aftermath of the Seven Years War, and during a period that witnessed growing revolutionary unrest in America as well as condemnation of British colonial hegemony in India, Johnstone's novel gestures to these contemporary developments while recounting the travels and adventures of an Eastern prince, Arsaces.