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Bad Luck Boswell
Author: Bad Luck Boswell
Author: Ramboro BooksPublisher:
ISBN: 9787215971325
Category :
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Bad Luck Boswell
Author: Diane Dawson HearnPublisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780689829451
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Superstitious villagers think Boswell is bringing them bad luck--and they're not all wrong. But when a witch moves into town, the black cat's bad luck turns her hexing into hilarious hijinks. Color illustrations throughout.
Boswell's Luck
Author: G. Clifton WislerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1590772628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
When his father dies and the family scatters, Erastus (‘Rat’) Hadley hires on as a hand to a local farmer. Rat is abused and tortured in his new home, but a depression is on and it’s a tough time for a young man to be on his own. When Rat’s loyal childhood friend Mitch Morris intervenes and the sheriff rescues Rat, his luck changes. Landing a job at last, Rat rides shotgun for the Western Stage Company out of Fort Worth. He quickly picks up a reputation as a crack shot, and as business increases, Rat is able to save towards the small ranch he’d always dreamed of. His steady routine is interrupted when the hero of his childhood, Sheriff Cathcart, asks him to become his deputy. Rat’s first duty as deputy is to track down the Oxenberg gang, one of the deadliest groups of bandits in all of Texas. When he draws close to his quarry, Rat is faced with one of the toughest lessons of his life: friendship and old loyalties don’t always square with justice and the law.
Boswell’s Enlightenment
Author: Robert ZaretskyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674425251
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Throughout his life, James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might, he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Boswell’s Enlightenment examines the conflicting credos of reason and faith, progress and tradition that pulled Boswell, like so many eighteenth-century Europeans, in opposing directions. In the end, the life of the man best known for writing Samuel Johnson’s biography was something of a patchwork affair. As Johnson himself understood: “That creature was its own tormentor, and I believe its name was BOSWELL.” Few periods in Boswell’s life better crystallize this internal turmoil than 1763–1765, the years of his Grand Tour and the focus of Robert Zaretsky’s thrilling intellectual adventure. From the moment Boswell sailed for Holland from the port of Harwich, leaving behind on the beach his newly made friend Dr. Johnson, to his return to Dover from Calais a year and a half later, the young Scot was intent on not just touring historic and religious sites but also canvassing the views of the greatest thinkers of the age. In his relentless quizzing of Voltaire and Rousseau, Hume and Johnson, Paoli and Wilkes on topics concerning faith, the soul, and death, he was not merely a celebrity-seeker but—for want of a better term—a truth-seeker. Zaretsky reveals a life more complex and compelling than suggested by the label “Johnson’s biographer,” and one that 250 years later registers our own variations of mind.
Bad Luck Felix
Author: Calvin DensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781948282963
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
It is the first day of school and Khloe is in class missing her mommy. Ms. Boswell is the teacher and she knows from past experience that reading is the perfect answer to little boys and girls having a bad day at school. Bad Luck Felix is the book that she gets off her classroom bookshelf because it never lets her down. Not wanting to give away the story, she decides to only tell her class that the book that she is about to read is about a Truck Driver who has bad luck from the time he wakes up until the time he goes to sleep.
Boswelliana
Author: Charles RogersPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752402822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Boswelliana by Charles Rogers
Boswelliana
Author: James BoswellBoswelliana the Commonplace Book of James Boswell
Author: Charles RogersPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368818376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description