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  • A Small Boy and Others (Esprios Classics)
    Henry James
    Henry James OM (1843-1916) was an Anglo-American novelist. He was one of the most important literary people of the late 19th century. James was the son of Henry James Senior, a clergyman, and the brother of William James, the psychologist and philosopher. He grew up mostly in the United States but spent the majority of his life in England. He became a British citizen in 1915. H...
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    24,39 €

  • A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (Esprios Classics)
    Watkin Tench
    Lieutenant General Watkin Tench (6 October 1758 - 7 May 1833) was a British marine officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first settlement in Australia in 1788. His two accounts, Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson provide an account of t...
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    22,90 €

  • Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear (Esprios Classics)
    Theresa Gowanlock
    'It is not the desire of the author of this work to publish the incidents which drenched a peaceful and prosperous settlement in blood, and subjected the survivors to untold suffering and privations at the hands of savages, in order to gratify a morbid craving for notoriety. During all my perils and wanderings amid the snow and ice of that trackless prairie, the hope that nerve...
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    18,76 €

  • The Forerunners (Esprios Classics)
    Romain Rolland
    Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 - 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 'as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings'. He was a leading supporter of Josef Stali...
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    22,94 €

  • The Story of Commodore John Barry (Esprios Classics)
    Martin I. J. Griffin / Martin IJGriffin
    Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin (1842-1911) was an American Catholic journalist and historian, instrumental to the founding of the American Catholic Historical Society. He contributed widely to scholarly journals and was the author of several books and monographs on the Catholic history of the United States. From an early age, Griffin became known as a regular contributor and ed...
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    20,69 €

  • Bars and Shadows (Esprios Classics)
    Ralph Chaplin
    Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887-1961) was an American writer, artist and labor activist. At the age of seven, he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman Strike in Chicago, Illinois. He had moved with his family from Ames, Kansas to Chicago in 1893. During a time in Mexico he was influenced by hearing of the execution squads established by Porfirio Díaz, and became a supporter of Em...
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    18,13 €

  • Abel Janszoon Tasman (Esprios Classics)
    James Backhouse Walker
    Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 - 1659) was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania), Fiji and New Zealand. Abel Tasman was born around 1603 in Lutjegast, a small village in the province o...
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    19,79 €

  • Life of John Milton (Esprios Classics)
    Richard Garnett
    Richard Garnett C. B. (27 February 1835 - 13 April 1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist (historical linguist) and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum, i. e. what is now the British Library. His literary works include numerous translations from the Greek, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portu...
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    23,69 €

  • One Question A Day Gratitude Journal for Kids
    PaperLand
    The act of writing down three simple gratitudes each day establishes a state of mindfulness that supports and reinforces the Law of Attraction. It is designed to enable children to focus on being thankful both in the biggest and smallest of wins in life.This book has a total of 104 pages, contains 3 inner covers and 101 planner pages. ...
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    18,95 €

  • The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight Between Bel and the Dragon (Esprios Classics)
    E. A. Wallis Budge / EAWallis Budge
    Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips to Egypt and the Sudan on behalf of the British Museum to buy antiquities, and helped it build its collection of cuneiform tablets, manuscripts, and papyri. H...
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    19,64 €

  • Gratitude is the Best Attitude Daily Prompts for Boys
    PaperLand
    The act of writing down three simple gratitudes each day establishes a state of mindfulness that supports and reinforces the Law of Attraction. It is designed to enable children to focus on being thankful both in the biggest and smallest of wins in life. This book has a total of 104 pages, contains 3 inner covers and 101 planner pages. ...
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    18,95 €

  • My Larger Education (Esprios Classics)
    Booker T. Washington / Booker TWashington
    Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and ...
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    23,69 €

  • Sea and Sardinia (Esprios Classics)
    D. H. Lawrence / DHLawrence
    Sea and Sardinia is a travel book by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It describes a brief excursion undertaken in January 1921 by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, a. k. a. Queen Bee, from Taormina in Sicily to the interior of Sardinia. They visited Cagliari, Mandas, Sorgono, and Nuoro. His visit to Nuoro was a kind of homage to Grazia Deledda but involved no personal encounter....
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    22,90 €

  • Poetry for Poetry’s Sake (Esprios Classics)
    A. C. Bradley / ACBradley
    Andrew Cecil Bradley, FBA (26 March 1851 - 2 September 1935) was an English literary scholar, best remembered for his work on Shakespeare. Bradley studied at Balliol College, Oxford. He obtained a Balliol Fellowship in 1874 and lectured first in English and subsequently in philosophy until 1881. He then took a permanent position at the University of Liverpool where he lectured ...
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    19,20 €

  • Letters From China and Japan (Esprios Classics)
    John Dewey
    John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century. The overriding theme of Dewey’s works was his profound belief in democracy, be it in politics, education, ...
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    20,73 €

  • The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume IV (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Paine
    Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain) (1737 - 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-1783), the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. His ...
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    22,95 €

  • Personal Poems (Esprios Classics)
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 - September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings, as well as his 1866 book Snow-Bound. Whittier was first i...
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    18,47 €

  • The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC (25 October 1800 - 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His The History of England was a seminal and paradigmatic example of Whig historiography, and its literary style has remained a...
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    27,42 €

  • The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Volume III (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC (25 October 1800 - 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His The History of England was a seminal and paradigmatic example of Whig historiography, and its literary style has remained a...
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    22,96 €

  • The Life of Gordon, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
    Demetrius C. Boulger / Demetrius CBoulger
    Demetrius Charles De Kavanagh Boulger (14 July 1853 - 15 December 1928) was a British author. He was born in Kensington to Brian Austin Boulger and Catherine de Kavanagh-Boulger. He was educated at the Kensington School. Beginning in 1876, Boulger contributed to the important British journals on questions concerning India, China, Egypt and Turkey and Congo. With Sir Lepel Griff...
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    24,46 €

  • Contributions to All the Year Round (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Dickens
    Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary gen...
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    18,35 €

  • The Breitmann Ballads (Esprios Classics)
    Charles G. Leland / Charles GLeland
    Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15, 1824 - March 20, 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Princeton University and in Europe. Leland worked in journalism, travelled extensively, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics. He published books and articles on American and European languages and folk tradit...
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    23,63 €

  • The Under Dog (Esprios Classics)
    F. Hopkinson Smith / FHopkinson Smith
    Francis Hopkinson Smith (October 23, 1838 - April 7, 1915) was a United States author, artist and engineer. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many famous stories and received awards for his paintings. Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from the Boys’...
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    23,68 €

  • The Passing of the Frontier (Esprios Classics)
    Emerson Hough
    Emerson Hough (June 28, 1857 - April 30, 1923) was an American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels. Hough was born in Newton, Iowa on June 28, 1857. He was in Newton High School’s first graduating class of three in 1875. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1880 and later studied law and was admitted ...
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    19,70 €

  • The English Gipsies and Their Language (Esprios Classics)
    Charles G. Leland / Charles GLeland
    Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15, 1824 - March 20, 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Princeton University and in Europe. Leland worked in journalism, travelled extensively, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics. He published books and articles on American and European languages and folk tradit...
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    22,98 €

  • The English Novel (Esprios Classics)
    George Saintsbury
    The English Novel is a study of the history of the novel in England, written by George Saintsbury in 1912, that observes its influences and origins. His critical essays include discussions on the works of Dickens, Swift, Thackeray, Austen, Scott, as well as writers of the late-nineteenth century. He prefaced the book with 'It is somewhat curious that there is, so far as I know,...
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    23,63 €

  • Christmas Comes but Once a Year (Esprios Classics)
    John Leighton
    John Leighton (15 September 1822 - 15 September 1912) was an English artist notable for his book illustrations and book cover designs. His talent for design found early expression in the publication Suggestions in Design ... for the Use of Artists and Art Workmen (1852). This was a work that expounded Leighton’s values and beliefs with regard to the history of design. He used t...
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    18,76 €

  • The Fixed Period (Esprios Classics)
    Anthony Trollope
    The Fixed Period (1882) is a satirical dystopian novel by Anthony Trollope. He was influenced in writing the book by The Old Law, a 17th-century tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger which he had read, and commented upon, in 1876. The Fixed Period is set in the year 1980 in the Republic of Britannula, a fictional island in the vicinity of...
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    22,93 €

  • Political Pamphlets (Esprios Classics)
    George Saintsbury
    'It is sometimes thought, and very often said, that political writing, after its special day is done, becomes more dead than any other kind of literature, or even journalism. I do not know whether my own judgment is perverted by the fact of a special devotion to the business, but it certainly seems to me that both the thought and the saying are mistakes. Indeed, a rough-and-rea...
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    22,96 €

  • Life of Lieut.-Admiral de Ruyter
    G. Grinnell-Milne / GGrinnell-Milne
    Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter was possibly the single greatest seafaring military leader in European history, leading his nation’s fleet into battle against England during three separate wars, as well as fighting the Barbary Corsairs, Sweden, and France during the period 1652 to 1677.De Ruyter first went to sea as a boatswain’s mate boy at the age of eleven, and saw battle by...
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    38,28 €


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