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  • California (Esprios Classics)
    J. Tyrwhitt Brooks / JTyrwhitt Brooks
    Henry Richard Vizetelly (1820-1894) was an English publisher and writer. He started the publications Pictorial Times and Illustrated Times, wrote several books while working in Paris and Berlin as correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and in 1886 founded a publishing house in London, Vizetelly and Company. His book California (written under the pseudonym 'J. Tyrwhittt ...
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    20,62 €

  • A Comparative View of Religions (Esprios Classics)
    J. H. Scholten / JHScholten
    Jan Hendrik Scholten (1811-1885), Dutch Protestant theologian, was born at Vleuten near Utrecht. After studying at Utrecht University, he was appointed professor of theology in 1840 at Franeker. From Franeker in 1843 he went to Leiden as professor extraordinarius, and in 1845 was promoted to the rank of ordinarius. From his theology in Germany 'began to rise a different type of...
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    18,25 €

  • Cross Roads (Esprios Classics)
    Margaret E. Sangster / Margaret ESangster
    'The window box across the streetIs filled with scarlet flowers;They glow, like bits of sunset cloud,Across the dragging hours.What though the mist be like a shroudWhat though the day be dreary?The window box across the streetIs warm, and gay, and cheery!The window box across the streetIs filled with scarlet flowers;I almost catch their perfume sweet.Above the sound of tramping...
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  • Great Britain at War (Esprios Classics)
    Jeffery Farnol
    Farnol published his first romance novel My Lady Caprice in 1907. The success of his early novels led Farnol to become a professional writer. He produced about 40 novels and volumes of stories, and some non-fiction and children’s books. His last book was completed by his second wife Phyllis. Two of his early books, The Amateur Gentleman and The Broad Highway, have been issued i...
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    19,67 €

  • Brittany and Its Byways (Esprios Classics)
    Mrs. Bury Palliser / MrsBury Palliser
    Fanny Bury Palliser (1805-1878) was an English writer on art, and lace. Born on 23 September 1805, she was daughter of Joseph Marryat, M P., of Wimbledon, by his wife Charlotte, daughter of Frederic Geyer of Boston, Massachusetts; she was a sister of Frederick Marryat the novelist. In 1832 she married Captain Richard Bury Palliser, who died in 1852, and with whom she had four s...
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    23,68 €

  • The Dramatic Values in Plautus (Esprios Classics)
    Wilton Wallace Blancké
    'This investigation was prompted by the abiding conviction that Plautus as a dramatic artist has been from time immemorial misunderstood. In his progress through the ages he has been like a merry clown rollicking amongst people with a hearty invitation to laughter, and has been rewarded by commendation for his services to morality and condemnation for his buffoonery. The majori...
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    19,64 €

  • Madame Chrysantheme (Esprios Classics)
    Pierre Loti
    Madame Chrysanthème is a novel by Pierre Loti, presented as the autobiographical journal of a naval officer who was temporarily married to a Japanese woman while he was stationed in Nagasaki, Japan. It closely follows the journal he kept of his summer 1885 affair with Kiku (Chrysanthemum) née Kane a few blocks north of Glover Garden in the Jūzenji neighbourhood; modern day Jūni...
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    22,98 €

  • My Memories of Eighty Years (Esprios Classics)
    Chauncey M. Depew / Chauncey MDepew
    Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834 - April 5, 1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt’s railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911. After graduating from Yale, Depew entered the office of Edward Wells, a lawyer in Peekskill, as a student. Depew then read law with William Nelson o...
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    26,70 €

  • Letters on England (Esprios Classics)
    Voltaire
    Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres Philosophiques) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England between 1726 and 1729 (though from 1707 the country was part of the Kingdom of Great Britain). It was published first in English in 1733 and then in French the following year, where it was seen as ...
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    20,70 €

  • My War Experiences in Two Continents (Esprios Classics)
    S. Macnaughtan / SMacnaughtan
    Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (26 October 1864 - 24 July 1916) was a Scottish novelist. With the outbreak of the First World War, she volunteered with the Red Cross Society and was sent to Russia and eventually Armenia. She wrote extensively about the plight of the Armenian refugees of the Armenian Genocide. She died due to an illness she contracted while abroad. London. There she w...
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    23,69 €

  • Recipes for My Daughter
    PaperLand
    Easy to note the secret cooking tips from your grandma, mom, and dad.You can record the ingredients, directions, notes, and photos up to 48 menus.Beautiful cover with modern floral style.This book has a total of 100 pages, contains 2 inner covers and 98 planner pages. ...
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    18,89 €

  • The Secret Ingredient is Love
    PaperLand
    Easy to note the secret cooking tips from your grandma, mom, and dad.You can record the ingredients, directions, notes, and photos up to 48 menus.Beautiful cover with modern floral style.This book has a total of 100 pages, contains 2 inner covers and 98 planner pages. ...
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    18,89 €

  • Watch Me Rock 5th Grade Daily Prompt Journal
    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 cover and 101 planner pages. ...
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    18,95 €

  • Madame Roland (Esprios Classics)
    John S. C. Abbott / John SCAbbott
    John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805-1877), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott. Owing to the success of his work, The Mother at Home, he devoted himself from 1844 onwards, to literature. He was a voluminous writer of books on Christian ethics, and of popular histories, which were credited with cultivating a ...
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    22,13 €

  • Life of St. Francis of Assisi (Esprios Classics)
    Paul Sabatier
    Charles Paul Marie Sabatier (1858-1928), was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Sabatier’s 1893 book La Vie de St. François d’Assise (translated as Life of St. Francis of Assisi in 1894) was placed upon the Index of Forbidden Books by the Catholic Churc...
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    31,20 €

  • The Watchers of the Plains (Esprios Classics)
    Ridgwell Cullum
    Ridgwell Cullum (13 August 1867 - 3 November 1943) was a British writer who wrote a large number of adventure novels over more than 30 years, usually set in sparsely populated regions of the United States or Canada. He left home aged 17 to join a gold rush in the Transvaal in South Africa, where he became involved in the conflict between British and Boer settlers; he travelled ...
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    25,93 €

  • Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale (Esprios Classics)
    John Sherburne Sleeper
    John Sherburne Sleeper (1794-1878) was an American sailor, ship master, novelist (who used the pseudonym of Hawser Martingale), journalist and politician. Sleeper was the publisher and editor of the Exeter, New Hampshire, News-Letter, editor and proprietor of The Lowell Daily Journal and editor and part proprietor of The Boston Mercantile Journal. Sleeper purchased The Lowell D...
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    28,97 €

  • Religion in Earnest (Esprios Classics)
    John Lyth
    John Lyth, D. D. (1821-1886) was an English Wesleyan Methodist preacher, author, historian and hymn writer. He was the earliest Wesleyan missionary in Germany. Lyth was born on 13 March 1821 in York. He attended Mr. Heigham’s Academy in Doncaster, and began work as a preacher in 1843. In 1859 he became the first Wesleyan missionary in Germany, serving as the General Superintend...
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    24,44 €

  • Six Days of the Irish Republic (Esprios Classics)
    L. G. Redmond-Howard / LGRedmond-Howard
    'Those who were in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916 were privileged to witness a scene which for dramatic setting and for paradoxical conception is certainly the most extraordinary of any of the long line of rebellions in Irish history, for at a time when it seemed almost universally admitted that 'Separatism' was from an economic, racial, and military point of view utterly impossi...
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    21,43 €

  • Jettatura (Esprios Classics)
    Theophile Gautier
    Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. He began writing poetry as early as 1826 but the majority of his life was spent as a contributor to various journals, mainly for La Presse. This also gave him the opportunity for foreign travel and meeting many influential contacts in high society and in the world...
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    19,83 €

  • The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus (Esprios Classics)
    Caius Cornelius Tacitus
    Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56 - c. 120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is considered by modern scholars to be one of the greatest Roman historians. He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature, and has a reputation for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psycholog...
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  • Forty-Six Years in the Army (Esprios Classics)
    John M. Schofield / John MSchofield
    John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906) was an American soldier who held major commands during the American Civil War. He later served as US. Secretary of War under Presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, and Commanding General of the United States Army. When the Civil War broke out, Schofield helped assure Missouri did not join the Confederacy. He became a major in the 1...
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    31,94 €

  • Venus in Furs (Esprios Classics)
    Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
    Venus in Furs is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain. Venus in Furs was part of Love, the first volume of the series. It was published in 1870. The framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while sh...
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  • Britain at Bay (Esprios Classics)
    Spenser Wilkinson
    Henry Spenser Wilkinson (1 May 1853 in Hulme, Manchester - 31 January 1937 in Oxford) was the first Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford University. While he was an English writer known primarily for his work on military subjects, he had wide interests. Earlier in his career he was the drama critic for London’s Morning Post. From 1882 to 1892 he was on the staff of ...
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  • Chronicle of the Cid (Esprios Classics)
    Various
    'I. King Don Ferrando succeeded to the states of Castille after the death of his father King Don Sancho el Mayor, in the era 1072, which was the year of the Incarnation 1034, and from the coming of the Patriarch Tubal to settle in Spain 3197, and from the general deluge 3339, and from the creation of the world 4995, according to the computation of the Hebrews, and from the begi...
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    25,23 €

  • Daring and Suffering (Esprios Classics)
    Lieut. William Pittenger / LieutWilliam Pittenger
    William Pittenger (January 31, 1840 Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio - April 24, 1904 Fallbrook, California) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He was one of the first recipients of the Medal of Honor. On the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted as a private in Company H of the 2nd Ohio Infantry Regiment on April 17, 1861, for three months of service, du...
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  • Characters from the Histories and Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century (Esprios Classics)
    Various
    'The art of literary portraiture in the seventeenth century developed with the effort to improve the writing of history. Its first and at all times its chief purpose in England was to show to later ages what kind of men had directed the affairs and shaped the fortunes of the nation. In France it was to be practised as a mere pastime; to sketch well-known figures in society, or ...
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    26,67 €

  • The Dominant Dollar (Esprios Classics)
    Will Lillibridge
    ''You’re cold-blooded as a fish, Roberts, colder. You’re-There is no adequate simile.'The man addressed said nothing.'You degrade every consideration in life, emotional and other, to a dollar-and-cents basis. Sentiment, ambition, common judgment of right and wrong, all gravitate to the same level. You have a single standard of measurement that you apply to all alike, which alik...
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    23,63 €

  • George Borrow in East Anglia (Esprios Classics)
    William A. Dutt / William ADutt
    George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 - 26 July 1881) was an English writer of novels and of travel books based on his own experiences in Europe. During his travels, he developed a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe, who figure prominently in his work. His best-known books are The Bible in Spain, and the novels Lavengro and The Romany Rye recalling his time with the Eng...
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    18,19 €

  • Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 (Esprios Classics)
    Arthur Acheson
    'Froude, the keynote of whose historical work is contained in his assertion that 'the Reformation was the root and source of the expansive force which has spread the Anglo-Saxon race over the globe,' recognising a logical and dramatic climax for his argument in the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, ends his history in that year; while Gardiner, whose historical interest was...
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