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  • The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Two Volumes in One
    Charles Darwin
    'If we choose to let conjecture run wild, then animals, our fellow brethren in pain, disease, death, suffering and famine-our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements-they may partake from our origin in one common ancestor-we may be all melted together.' -Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (1896)The Life and Letters of ...
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    72,10 €

  • Charles Dickens As I Knew Him
    George Dolby
    George Dolby worked as manager and secretary for the author Charles Dickens, accompanying him on his famous writing tours in Britain and North America.As well as being a prolific author, Charles Dickens was renowned for his capacity to evocatively read his stories to others. He channeled the emotional and dramatic portions of his books so well that listeners often sat rapt in s...
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    14,80 €

  • The Silverado Squatters
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'The scene of this little book is on a high mountain. . . . As I recall the place-the green dell below; the spires of pine; the sun-warm, scented air . . . I slowly awake to a sense of admiration, gratitude, and almost love.' -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado SquattersThe Silverado Squatters (1888), by Robert Louis Stevenson, describes experiences the author shared with hi...
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    14,96 €

  • Notes of a Pianist
    Louis Moreau Gottschalk / R. E. Peterson
    The recollections of the great American composer and pianist Louis Gottschalk shine with majesty and insight into the life of a touring virtuoso in the nineteenth century.Well-travelled and appreciated by audiences across Europe and the Americas, Gottschalk was a pianist of supreme talent, imbuing his performances with emotional and sensual depth seldom heard in the concert hal...
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    19,58 €

  • Edinburgh
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.' ―Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes This edition of Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a travel book by one of...
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    18,84 €

  • Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
    Fa Xian
    Faxian (337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled by foot from Ancient China to Ancient India, visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia between 399-412 to acquire Buddhist texts. His journey is described in his important travelogue, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese M...
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    25,68 €

  • Mormonism Unveiled
    John D. Lee
    Mormonism Unveiled is John Doyle Lee’s confessional exposé of malpractices in the Mormon Church, including his own role as an assassin responsible for several murders.In chronicling his years as a member of the church, Lee discusses how he came to meet and associate with Joseph Smith; the founder and prophet of Mormonism. The processes by which the charismatic Smith drew in fol...
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    14,93 €

  • Life of Rev. A. Crooks
    E. W. Crooks / EWCrooks
    Reverend Adam Crooks was an activist and minister whose tireless campaigns against slavery in the 19th century led to his being one of Methodist church’s most famous abolitionists.Born at a time when slavery in America was scarcely questioned by the religious establishment, Reverend Crooks’ felt a personal revulsion toward enslavement, and especially its continuation by individ...
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    12,46 €

  • John of Gaunt
    C. W. Empson / CWEmpson
    John of Gaunt was an English prince in the 14th century whose political skills and astute negotiating strengthened the monarchy of his nephew, King Richard II.A talented and able negotiator and statesman, John of Gaunt’s actions were pivotal amid the politically fractious climate of the 14th century. The rivalling nobilities, each with many lords under their vassalage, threaten...
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    8,07 €

  • The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa
    St Catherine of Genoa
    The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa consists of three separate works: The Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa (which includes her sayings) as compiled by her confessor, Don Cattaneo Marabotto, and two works by St. Catherine herself The Spiritual Dialogue (between the Soul and the Body), and the famous Treatise on Purgatory. Treatise on Purgatory sets th...
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    13,53 €

  • The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume II
    John Forster
    'This cheap edition of my books is dedicated to the English people, in whose approval, if the books be true in spirit, they will live, and out of whose memory, if they be false, they will very soon die.' -Charles Dickens, The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume II (1874)The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume II (1874) focuses on the English author’s life from 1842-1851 and documents h...
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    29,01 €

  • The Life of Charles Dickens, Two Volumes in One
    John Forster
    '...Dickens was moved or inspired by the rough lessons of his boyhood, and the groundwork of the character was undoubtedly laid; but the rhetorical exuberance impressed itself upon him later, and from this as it expanded and developed in a thousand amusing ways, the full-length figure took its great charm.' -John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume I (1872)The Life of ...
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    58,69 €

  • The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume I
    John Forster
    '...Dickens was moved or inspired by the rough lessons of his boyhood, and the groundwork of the character was undoubtedly laid; but the rhetorical exuberance impressed itself upon him later, and from this as it expanded and developed in a thousand amusing ways, the full-length figure took its great charm.' -John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume I (1872)The Life of ...
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    29,11 €

  • Memoir of Jane Austen
    James Edward Austen-Leigh
     THE MEMOIR of my AUNT, JANE AUSTEN, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated interest is still taken in every particular that can be told about her. I am thus encouraged not only to offer a Second E...
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    15,54 €

  • Life of Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr
    Prosper Guéranger
    Saint Cecilia is among the first female Christian saints, being born in the Roman Empire during the early 3rd century AD. This is the story of her life, the discovery of her remains, and her veneration.This biography recounts the various tales surrounding Cecilia and her life in Ancient Rome. At a young age she found her calling: unceasing devotion to the Christian Lord. Howeve...
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    30,42 €

  • Beethoven’s Letters 1790 - 1826
    Lady Grace Jane Wallace / Ludvig van Beethoven
    Beethoven’s correspondences reveal much about his personality, inner struggles, and love of music. This edition includes all of the musical staves appended by the great composer to his letters.The second volume of Beethoven’s letters begin with the composer in maturity. In these later years, several of his most accomplished and beautiful musical works were completed. It is clea...
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    9,88 €

  • Beethoven’s Letters 1790 - 1826
    Ludvig van Beethoven / Lady Grace Jane Wallace
    The publisher presents the entirety of Beethoven’s Letters in two volumes, inclusive of the musical staves which the legendary composer appended to his personal correspondences.The first volume of Ludwig van Beethoven’s letters covers the period from his youth as an ambitious and fledgling young talent living in Vienna, to his peak years wherein he saw musical composition not m...
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    9,89 €

  • Life of Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr
    Prosper Guéranger
    Saint Cecilia is among the first female Christian saints, being born in the Roman Empire during the early 3rd century AD. This is the story of her life, the discovery of her remains, and her veneration.This biography recounts the various tales surrounding Cecilia and her life in Ancient Rome. At a young age she found her calling: unceasing devotion to the Christian Lord. Howeve...
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    16,09 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Jacobs
    The voice of a black female slave, written in her own hand, as she struggles for identity and freedom.  What is it to serve a master? What is it to know you are bought free? Read for yourself. ...
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    8,44 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Jacobs
    The voice of a black female slave, written in her own hand, as she struggles for identity and freedom.  What is it to serve a master? What is it to know you are bought free? Read for yourself. ...
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    18,86 €

  • Chief of the Pilgrims
    Ashbel Steele
    William Brewster was an important official who helped organize passage aboard the Mayflower, an English ship which took a group of migrating families to Massachusetts.This biography begins long before the Mayflower’s famous voyage of 1620. We are treated to a deep examination of politics and religion in Elizabethan England, which shaped the actions which Brewster later took. Hi...
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    18,82 €

  • Autobiography of Peter Cartwright
    Peter Cartwright
    Peter Cartwright, affectionately termed the ’backwoods preacher’, tells his life story; a tale of adventure, hardship and inspiration for all who follow God’s path.Born at a time when the USA was a newborn nation, Peter Cartwright experienced a formal conversion to the Christian creed at the age of fifteen while attending camp. Witnessing the power the Christian ministry in his...
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    13,23 €

  • Walden (Chump Change Edition)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Unabridged version of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Walden as a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part manual for self-reliance.Nature was a study for the essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist David Thoreau. He communed from his cabin on Wald...
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    8,43 €

  • Walden (Chump Change Edition)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Unabridged version of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Walden as a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part manual for self-reliance.Nature was a study for the essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist David Thoreau. He communed from his cabin on Wald...
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    18,84 €

  • The Life of John Knox
    Thomas McCrie
    Herein are both biographical volumes concerning Scotland’s famous minister John Knox, who led the Scottish Reformation and helped found the Church of Scotland.The son of a merchant, Knox received a good education and was naturally academic from youth. In the 1500s, the church and priesthood was where those of scholarly tendencies went: John duly became a priest and tutor. Taken...
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    19,22 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave (Chump Change Edition)
    Solomon Northup
    Unabridged value reproduction of Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, including the six original images, offered here for chump change. He was born free, kidnapped into slavery, and made his way back to freedom. This is his voice.Northup describes with stark detail his process into slavery through Washington D.C., “The voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom...
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    18,87 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    Unabridged value reproduction of Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, including the six original images. He was born free, kidnapped into slavery, and made his way back to freedom. This is his story. This is his voice.Northup describes with stark detail his process into slavery through Washington D.C., “The voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom and equalit...
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    8,43 €

  • Life of Chopin
    Franz Liszt
    Life of Chopin is classical music biography that represents the definitive account of the life of the great Polish pianist/composer, Frederic Chopin. The story is told by his friend and colleague, the legendary Hungarian pianist, Franz Liszt-the ideal man to relate the brief, but brilliant life of Chopin. Liszt's proximity to the subject and insightful accounts make this Ch...
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    24,46 €

  • Walking
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    “I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee a...
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    6,35 €

  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth
    Unabridged value reproduction of Narrative of Sojourner Truth. She was sold for $100 but grew beyond her place in society to demand rights for women as well as African Americans.  This is her story.  This is her voice.She is the passionate woman on the Smithsonian Institution’s list of “100 Most Significant Americans.” She was the first black woman to win a case against a white...
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    16,50 €


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