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  • Inside Chincoteague and Assateague
    Lucas Ball
    Inside Chincoteague and Assateague. Virginia Tourism. The main town for eating and lodging on the Eastern Shore in Virginia is Chincoteague Island, which has become a wee bit hip in recent years, with a young and entrepreneurial slew of residents injecting energy into the community. Let world-famous Chincoteague Island be the backdrop for your next business or social event! Thi...
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    35,19 €

  • Dominican Republic, Caribbean
    Ethan Brown
    Dominican Republic, Caribbean. Enjoy discovering the wonders of the Dominican Republic, the best option for tourism in the Caribbean. Go to the Dominican Republic, the second largest country of those bathed by the Caribbean waters and the preferred tourist destination due to its beauty and uniqueness. Discover the first European settlement in America, an island that Columbus na...
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    35,45 €

  • More Pages from a Journal, with Other Papers (Esprios Classics)
    Mark Rutherford
    William Hale White (1831 - 1913), known by his pseudonym Mark Rutherford, was a British writer and civil servant. White was born in Bedford educated at Bedford Modern School. He had already served an apprenticeship to journalism before he made his name as a novelist by the three books edited by Reuben Shapcott, The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1881), Mark Rutherford’s Del...
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    22,95 €

  • American Indian Stories (Esprios Classics)
    Zitkala-Sa
    Zitkála-Šá (1876-1938) (Red Bird), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, her missionary-given and later married name, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity and the pull between the majority culture she was educated within and her Dakota culture into w...
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    19,70 €

  • The Histories (Esprios Classics)
    Caius Cornelius Tacitus
    Histories is a Roman historical chronicle by Tacitus. Written c. 100-110, it covers c. 69-96, a period which includes the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, as well as the period between the rise of the Flavian Dynasty under Vespasian and the death of Domitian. Together, the Histories and the Annals amounted to 30 books. Saint Jerome refers to these books exp...
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    27,46 €

  • From Plotzk to Boston (Esprios Classics)
    Mary Antin
    From Plotzk to Boston is an 1899 memoir by author and immigration activist Mary Antin (1881-1949). It chronicles her emigration from her hometown of Polotsk in the Russian Empire (now modern Belarus) to the United States in 1894, focusing primarily on her observations of life in unfamiliar surroundings, the emotional trials endured by her family, and the hardships that accompan...
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    18,19 €

  • Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Esprios Classics)
    Mary Shelley
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother wa...
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    18,47 €

  • The Inner Sisterhood (Esprios Classics)
    George Douglass Sherley
    George Douglass Sherley (1857-1917) was an author, journalist, and poet. Sherley was born and lived in Louisville, Kentucky. He was born into a wealthy family with interests in railroad companies, and inherited the family’s estate. He graduated from Centre College, and then studied law at the University of Virginia. He worked as a journalist for the Louisville Courier-Journal b...
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    18,28 €

  • Autobiography of Anthony Trollope (Esprios Classics)
    Anthony Trollope
    Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. In 1867 Trollope left his position in the British Post Office to run for Parliament as a Liberal candidate in 1868. After he lost, he concentrated entirely on his...
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    23,64 €

  • Childhood (Esprios Classics)
    Leo Tolstoy
    Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, an...
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    19,85 €

  • Girl Finds a Rainbow
    Jacqueline Cox
    In the third book of the ’Girl’ trilogy, Jackie has found her true love. With a new partner who grounds her and three grown-up children, Jackie’s world is stable and happy like never before. Success in love and work provides great benefits, but she yearns for something more-new life. For Jackie, this journey will bring more sorrow and loss. Now that she is an older woman, will ...
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    25,41 €

  • The Spell of Egypt (Esprios Classics)
    Robert Hichens
    Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950) was an English journalist and novelist. Born in Speldhurst in Kent, he was educated at Clifton College, the Royal College of Music, and the London School of Journalism. He wrote lyrics for music, stories, and collaborated in successful plays. He is best remembered now, perhaps, for his satire on Oscar Wilde, The Green Carnation (1894). His nove...
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    19,83 €

  • The Silverado Squatters (Esprios Classics)
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child’s Garden of Verses. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to...
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    18,64 €

  • A Child’s History of Rome Volume II
    John Bonner
    Volume II of John Bonner’s classic retelling of the history of Rome has lost none of its attention-grabbing interest since it was first published, and provides the perfect introduction to younger readers of the story of the greatness and the glory that was Rome.This second volume starts with the civil war which ended with the reign of Julius Caesar, the renewed conflict which f...
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    40,26 €

  • The Perfect Wagnerite (Esprios Classics)
    George Bernard Shaw
    The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw. Shaw offered it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who 'were unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the least understand the dilemma of Wotan. Shaw interprets th...
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    19,90 €

  • A Child’s History of Rome Volume II
    John Bonner
    Volume II of John Bonner’s classic retelling of the history of Rome has lost none of its attention-grabbing interest since it was first published, and provides the perfect introduction to younger readers of the story of the greatness and the glory that was Rome.This second volume starts with the civil war which ended with the reign of Julius Caesar, the renewed conflict which f...
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    24,32 €

  • The Stranger in France (Esprios Classics)
    Sir John Carr
    Sir John Carr (1772-1832) was an English barrister and (travel) writer. Carr, from Devonshire, was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, but for health reasons began to travel. Accounts of his journeys around Europe were popular for their light style. Shortly after the publication of The Stranger in Ireland (1806), Carr was knighted by John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, then ...
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    23,68 €

  • Three Score and Ten in Retrospect (Esprios Classics)
    J. W. Hooper / JWHooper
    'I was born in Livingston County, N. Y., July 5, 1827.My parents both died before I was eight years old. I found a home with a cousin in St. Lawrence county. I think my cousin was a good man; but, unfortunately for me, I soon fell into disfavor with his wife, who seemed to improve every opportunity to make my life unpleasant. Two incidents will be sufficient to indicate somethi...
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    18,44 €

  • My Experiences in Australia (Esprios Classics)
    A Lady
    Emma McPherson (1833 - 1915), also known as Mrs Allan Macpherson, author and watercolour artist, was the daughter of Charles Henry Blake and his wife Frances. Emma McPherson wrote a book about her time in Australia titled, My Experiences in Australia: Being Recollections of a Visit to the Australian Colonies in 1856-7. She also painted scenes of some of the places visited durin...
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    22,90 €

  • The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Longueville
    Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck (1602 - 1645) was the central figure in a notable sex scandal within the English aristocracy of the early 17th century that was known at the time as 'the Lady Purbeck’s business'. The first biography of Lady Purbeck was published by an Edwardian gentleman-scholar, Thomas Longueville, in 1909. However, it omits important facts since Longueville ...
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    20,70 €

  • The Dogmother Log Book
    PaperLand
    This is the perfect book for organizing all of your dog’s health information, including vaccinations, meds, and training, in one book.Checklist for dog sitters, vet appointments, and pet expense tracker pages.Everything above will function as a pet lover’s diary, with weekly and monthly additions. ...
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    19,01 €

  • Mother of Dogs Book
    PaperLand
    A logbook is a thing where you may keep track of all of your dog’s health information, such as vaccinations, meds, and training.Books for pet sitters, vet appointments, and pet expense tracking.All of the above will function as a dog lover’s journal, with weekly and monthly entries included. ...
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    15,60 €

  • for love and poetry (second edition)
    KJCA
    Writers have time and again attempted to define love from a range of perspectives. But one thing remains true then and now: it is what we believe in.This book explores the author’s personal and second-hand recollections of love, especially the grit, loss and musings that come with it. Just like the title, this poetry anthology claims nothing, except staying true to itself, love...
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    10,41 €

  • An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha (Esprios Classics)
    John N. Hubbard / John NHubbard
    Red Jacket (known as Otetiani in his youth and Sagoyewatha [Keeper Awake] Sa-go-ye-wa-tha as an adult because of his oratorical skills) (c. 1750-January 20, 1830) was a Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan, based in Western New York. On behalf of his nation, he negotiated with the new United States after the American Revolutionary War, when the Seneca as British allies were...
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    23,68 €

  • The Flag Replaced on Sumter (Esprios Classics)
    William A. Spicer / William ASpicer
    'IMMEDIATELY upon the election of Abraham Lincoln as President, in November, 1860, a predetermined plan of secession was entered upon by the leading public men of the South, on the plea that his election was dangerous the interests of slavery. In February, 1861, seven of the slave States having united in the movement, an independent government was organized, under the name of t...
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    17,63 €

  • John Stuart Mill (Esprios Classics)
    Various
    'John Stuart Mill was born in 1806. 'I am glad,' wrote George Grote to him in 1865, with reference to a forthcoming article on his 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy,' 'to get an opportunity of saying what I think about your ’System of Logic’ and ’Essay on Liberty,’ but I am still more glad to get (or perhaps to make) an opportunity of saying something about you...
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    18,50 €

  • Montreal After 250 Years (Esprios Classics)
    W. D. Lighthall / WDLighthall
    William Douw Lighthall KC FRSL FRSC (December 27, 1857 - August 3, 1954), often referred to as W. D. Lighthall, was a Canadian lawyer, historian, novelist, poet and philosopher. He served as mayor of Westmount from 1900 to 1903. During that time he originated, and in 1901 co-founded, the Union of Canadian Municipalities (now the Federation of Canadian Municipalities). He also s...
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    20,69 €

  • Stories from the History of Rome (Esprios Classics)
    Emily Beesly
    'THERE once reigned in a town called Alba in Italy a king whose name was Numitor. He had a brother called Amulius, who was a proud and wicked man, and could not bear that his elder brother should be king over him. So Amulius plotted against his brother. He got together a number of men who were as bad and cruel as himself, and they attacked Numitor and drove him from his throne,...
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    19,60 €

  • Working with the Working Woman (Esprios Classics)
    Cornelia Stratton Parker
    WISE heads tell us we act first-or decide to act first-and reason afterward. Therefore, what could be put down in black and white as to why we took up factory work is of minor value or concern. Yet everyone persists in asking why? So then, being merely as honest as the Lord allows, we answer first and foremost because we wanted to. Isn’t that enough? It is the why and wherefore...
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    22,89 €

  • Lloyd George (Esprios Classics)
    Frank Dilnot
    Frank Dilnot (1875-1946) was an English author and journalist, born in Hampshire. He was educated privately and began as a newspaper reporter in 1900 on the staff of the Central News, London, which he left two years later for the Daily Mail (1902-10). He was editor of the Daily Citizen, a British labour organ (1912-15), and thereafter was a correspondent for the Daily Chronicle...
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    20,73 €


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