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The Philosopher's Apprentice (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Philosopher's ApprenticeA cross between Lost, Pygmalion and The Island of Dr Moreau! A philosopher is given the task of teaching a mysterious child, but does not foresee the consequences for his protegee...
Full description- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Published: 13 March 2008
- Format: Hardback 368 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780297853435 ISBN 10: 0297853430
- Sales rank: 486,172
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Full description for The Philosopher's Apprentice
After crashing and burning during his PhD viva, Mason Ambrose is offered a large amount of money to come to the Isla de Sangre to instruct the daughter of wealthy Edwina Sabachtani. He is to use his knowledge as a philosopher to instil a conscience, a moral compass, in Edwina's daughter Londa following a diving accident which has supposedly destroyed her sense of right and wrong. Mason happily instructs her in schools of thought, from the stoics to the epicureans. But it is when he introduces her to the Beatitudes that the seeds of a rampaging sense of justice are sown and Londa becomes determined that the meek really shall inherit the earth! She becomes something of a 'celebrity saint' but then she takes her crusade too far, kidnapping a boat full of wealthy industrialists. A funny, tongue in cheek but also thought-provoking novel from the author of THE LAST WITCHFINDER that asks important questions about what makes us human and how we makes choices in a complex world.
