Author: Shawn Myers
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300038470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Meet Pete, a loveable bad guy and son of a deceased CIA agent that sells weapons. He loves to drink. He loves money. He loves women. He always wins...well, most of the time. Things were going extremely well for Pete until greed started to catch up with him. Pete will have to make a tough career decision that will affect his retirement plans.
The Adventures and Misfortunes of Pete
Author: Shawn Myers
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300038470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Meet Pete, a loveable bad guy and son of a deceased CIA agent that sells weapons. He loves to drink. He loves money. He loves women. He always wins...well, most of the time. Things were going extremely well for Pete until greed started to catch up with him. Pete will have to make a tough career decision that will affect his retirement plans.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300038470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Meet Pete, a loveable bad guy and son of a deceased CIA agent that sells weapons. He loves to drink. He loves money. He loves women. He always wins...well, most of the time. Things were going extremely well for Pete until greed started to catch up with him. Pete will have to make a tough career decision that will affect his retirement plans.
The Story of My Misfortunes
Author: Peter Abélard
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486164519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
In this classic of medieval literature, a brilliant and daring thinker relates the spellbinding story of his philosophical and spiritual enlightenment--and the tale of his tragic personal life as well. Peter Abélard paints an absorbing portrait of monastic and scholastic life in twelfth-century Paris, while also recounting the circumstances and consequences of one of history’s most famous love stories--his doomed romance with Heloise. Considered the founder of the University of Paris, Abélard was instrumental in promoting the use of the dialectical method in Western education. He regarded theology as the "handmaiden" of knowledge and believed that through reason, people could attain a greater knowledge of God. "By doubting," he declared, "we come to inquire, and by inquiry we arrive at truth." Abélard's tendency to leave questions open for discussion made him a target for frequent charges of heresy, and all his works were eventually included in the church's Index of Forbidden Books. Unfortunately, Abélard’s reputation as a philosopher is often overshadowed by his renown as a lover. In addition to its value as a scholarly treatise, The Story of My Misfortunes offers the rare opportunity to observe a legendary romance from the point of view of one of its participants.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486164519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
In this classic of medieval literature, a brilliant and daring thinker relates the spellbinding story of his philosophical and spiritual enlightenment--and the tale of his tragic personal life as well. Peter Abélard paints an absorbing portrait of monastic and scholastic life in twelfth-century Paris, while also recounting the circumstances and consequences of one of history’s most famous love stories--his doomed romance with Heloise. Considered the founder of the University of Paris, Abélard was instrumental in promoting the use of the dialectical method in Western education. He regarded theology as the "handmaiden" of knowledge and believed that through reason, people could attain a greater knowledge of God. "By doubting," he declared, "we come to inquire, and by inquiry we arrive at truth." Abélard's tendency to leave questions open for discussion made him a target for frequent charges of heresy, and all his works were eventually included in the church's Index of Forbidden Books. Unfortunately, Abélard’s reputation as a philosopher is often overshadowed by his renown as a lover. In addition to its value as a scholarly treatise, The Story of My Misfortunes offers the rare opportunity to observe a legendary romance from the point of view of one of its participants.
Tales of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea
Author: James Lindridge
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Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
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Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Adventure
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The Heiresses of Fotheringay
Author: Augustin
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Peter Simple; Or, The Adventures of a Midshipman
Author: Frederick Marryat
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Mary Montgomery. The siege of Roxburgh. The adventures of Colonel Peter Aston. Gordon the gipsey. Wat Pringle o' the Yair
Author: James Hogg
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Life & Adventures of Peter Wilkins
Author: Robert Paltock
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins
Author: Robert Paltock
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Adventures of David Simple
Author: Sarah Fielding
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813109459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
" The Adventures of David Simple (1744), Sarah Fielding's first and most celebrated novel, went through several editions, the second of which was heavily revised by her brother Henry. This edition includes Henry's ""corrections"" in an appendix. In recounting the guileless hero's search for a true friend, the novel depicts the derision with which almost everyone treats his sentimental attitudes to human nature. Acclaimed as an accurate portrait of mid-eighteenth-century London, The Adventures of David Simple sets forth some provocative feminist ideas. Also included is Fielding's much darker sequel, Volume the Last (1753).
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813109459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
" The Adventures of David Simple (1744), Sarah Fielding's first and most celebrated novel, went through several editions, the second of which was heavily revised by her brother Henry. This edition includes Henry's ""corrections"" in an appendix. In recounting the guileless hero's search for a true friend, the novel depicts the derision with which almost everyone treats his sentimental attitudes to human nature. Acclaimed as an accurate portrait of mid-eighteenth-century London, The Adventures of David Simple sets forth some provocative feminist ideas. Also included is Fielding's much darker sequel, Volume the Last (1753).