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  • The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (Esprios Classics)
    George Gissing
    The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft is a semi-fictional autobiographical work by George Gissing in which the author casts himself as the editor of the diary of a deceased acquaintance, selecting essays for posthumous publication. It was partly because of the seasonal arrangement, and Ryecroft’s obvious love of the natural world, that the book gained widespread popularity in Ja...
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    21,43 €

  • A Glimpse of the Sinless Star, and The World of the Crystal Cities (Esprios Classics)
    George Griffith
    George Griffith (1857-1906), full name George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones, was a prolific British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Many of his visionary tales appeared in magazines such as Pearson’s Magazine and Pearson’s Weekly before being published as novels. Griffith was extremely popular in the United Kingdom, tho...
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    17,24 €

  • The Prescription Against Heretics
    Tertullian
    This short treatise was composed by Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; 155 - 240 AD) on how Christians should deal with heresy and heretical arguments, mostly from pagans. He argued that the apostles transmitted the truth down to their approved successors, and that essentially no heresy is new. He also asserted that all heresies are condemned by 'the sentence a...
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    7,19 €

  • The Catechism Explained, Part I
    Francis Spirago
    This 19th-century Catholic work provides an in-depth understanding of the Catholic Faith using the authoritative Council of Trent (1545 - 1563) catechism as its source.The entire work is divided into three parts:I) the first part treats of faith,II) the second of morals,III) the third of the means of grace. This first volume covers the aspects of faith. The source text is: 'The...
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    14,80 €

  • Against Heresies (Books IV-V)
    Irenaeus of Lyons
    In 180 AD, St. Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyon, France wrote Against Heresies. It is a collected work made up of 5 books, wherein Irenaeus examines the many schools of Gnostic thought of his day, in addition to various heretical Christian sects. He contrasts these with the orthodoxy of Christianity. This version of the work contains the last two books, which focus on refuting anci...
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    13,61 €

  • Henry IV (Esprios Classics)
    Luigi Pirandello
    Henry IV is an Italian play (Enrico IV) by Luigi Pirandello written in 1921 and premiered to general acclaim at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan on 24 February 1922. A study on madness with comic and tragic elements, it is about a man who believes himself to be Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. It has been translated into English by Tom Stoppard, among others. Rex Harrison starred in a ...
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    18,53 €

  • Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations (Esprios Classics)
    Rev. A. H. Sayce / RevAHSayce
    The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933), was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919. He was able to write in at least twenty ancient and modern languages, and was known for his emphasis on the importance of archaeological and monumental evidence in linguistic research. He was a ...
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    23,67 €

  • The Life of Thomas Telford (Esprios Classics)
    Samuel Smiles
    Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was a Scottish author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His masterpiece, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire governm...
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    25,16 €

  • Patriarchal Palestine (Esprios Classics)
    Rev. A. H. Sayce / RevAHSayce
    The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933), was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919. He was able to write in at least twenty ancient and modern languages, and was known for his emphasis on the importance of archaeological and monumental evidence in linguistic research. He was a ...
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    22,18 €

  • History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China (Esprios Classics)
    Rev. J. V. N. Talmage / RevJVNTalmage
    John Van Nest Talmage (18 August 1819 - 19 August 1892), was a Protestant Christian missionary to Amoy, Fujian, China. He was sent by the Reformed Church in America from 1847 to 1890. His younger brother Thomas De Witt Talmage was also a clergyman, and his family, within the Reformed tradition, migrated to North America from the Netherlands. His father’s family had emigrated fr...
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    18,41 €

  • Thoughts on Religion at the Front (Esprios Classics)
    Rev. Neville S. Talbot / RevNeville STalbot
    Neville Stuart Talbot MC (1879-1943) was Bishop of Pretoria in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and later a robust vicar of St. Mary’s Church, Nottingham and assistant Bishop of Southwell who turned down the chance to be Bishop of Croydon. He was born at Keble College, Oxford, and died at Henfield, Sussex. He joined the Army in 1898, just in time for the Boer War. Militar...
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    18,22 €

  • Men of Invention and Industry (Esprios Classics)
    Samuel Smiles
    Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was a Scottish author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His masterpiece, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire governm...
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    25,93 €

  • The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Vol. XIII. America
    Richard Hakluyt
    Richard Hakluyt (1553-1616) was an English writer. He is known for promoting the English colonisation of North America through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principall Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (1589-1600). Hakluyt was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. Betw...
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    28,24 €

  • Baltimore Catechism No. 1
    The Third Plenary Council
    During the nineteenth century, there were repeated efforts in the United States to make a uniform textbook of Christian doctrine that all Catholics might be able to use. In 1829, the bishops assembled in the First Provincial Council of Baltimore to discuss the matter. They recommended using St. Bellarmine’s catechism as a model. Finally, in the Third Plenary Council (1884) the ...
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    7,53 €

  • Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
    St. John Chrysostom / StJohn Chrysostom
    This commentary on Galatians was composed by St. John Chrysostom (347 - 407), the great preacher of Constantinople, who delivered them in the form of six homilies, providing a detailed verse by verse study of this important letter by the Apostle St. Paul.The Epistle is the ninth book in the New Testament and is addressed to the Christians in Galatia, a region of Asia Minor (mod...
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    13,78 €

  • Etruscan Places (Esprios Classics)
    D. H. Lawrence / DHLawrence
    Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian Essays, or Etruscan Places, is a collection of travel writings by D. H. Lawrence, first published posthumously in 1932. In this book Lawrence contrasted the life affirming world of the Etruscans with the shabbiness of Benito Mussolini’s Italy during the late 1920s. In preparing these essays, Lawrence travelled through the countrysid...
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    21,46 €

  • Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands From 1809 to 1815 (Esprios Classics)
    Captain J. Kincaid / Captain JKincaid
    ''I joined the second battalion rifle brigade, (then the ninety-fifth,) at Hythe-Barracks, in the spring of 1809, and, in a month after, we proceeded to form a part of the expedition to Holland, under the Earl of Chatham.With the usual Quixotic feelings of a youngster, I remember how very desirous I was, on the march to Deal, to impress the minds of the natives with a suitable ...
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    22,95 €

  • Mornings in Mexico (Esprios Classics)
    D. H. Lawrence / DHLawrence
    Mornings in Mexico is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence, first published by Martin Secker in 1927. These brief works display Lawrence’s gifts as a travel writer, catching the ’spirit of place’ in his own vivid manner. Lawrence wrote the first four of these essays at the same time as he was completing and revising his Mexican novel The Plumed Serpent (1926). Three ...
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    19,79 €

  • The Spirit of Rome (Esprios Classics)
    Vernon Lee
    Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (1856-1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel. Violet Paget was born in France on 14 October 1856, at Château St Leonard, Boulogne, to British expatriate pa...
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    19,90 €

  • The Old Jinrikisha (Esprios Classics)
    Onoto Watanna
    Winnifred Eaton was a Canadian author and screenwriter. Although she was of Chinese-British ancestry, she published under the Japanese pseudonym Onoto Watanna and under the name Winifred Reeve. Eaton was only 14 when one of her stories was accepted for publication by a Montreal newspaper. Before long she also had articles published in several popular magazines in the United Sta...
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    19,67 €

  • Japanese War News by Word O`Mouth and Other Stories (Esprios Classics)
    Onoto Watanna
    Winnifred Eaton was a Canadian author and screenwriter. Although she was of Chinese-British ancestry, she published under the Japanese pseudonym Onoto Watanna and under the name Winifred Reeve. Eaton was only 14 when one of her stories was accepted for publication by a Montreal newspaper. Before long she also had articles published in several popular magazines in the United Sta...
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    19,26 €

  • A Fleece of Gold (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Stewart Given
    ''Among the smaller forces which operate upon the mind and tend toward strengthening and exalting the best ideals, are little books like this. They are especially valuable when so much of the author’s own experience forms a thread upon which are suspended jewels of thought and illustration serviceable to those who would see and know the best things.I have found these characteri...
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    19,32 €

  • The Bird Cage (Esprios Classics)
    Eimar O’Duffy
    Eimar Ultan O’Duffy (29 September 1893 - 21 March 1935) was born in Dublin and educated at Belvedere College in Dublin, Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and at University College Dublin. He and Bulmer Hobson caused disaster to the plans for the 1916 Easter Rising when they told Eoin MacNeill that the Rising was planned for the next week; MacNeill, nominal head of the Irish Volu...
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    22,94 €

  • The Story of Butler’s Rangers and the Settlement of Niagara (Esprios Classics)
    Ernest Cruikshank
    Ernest Alexander 'E. A.' Cruikshank FRSC (29 June 1853 - 23 June 1939), was a Canadian Brigadier General, a historian who specialized in military history and the first Chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Cruikshank was born in Bertie Township, Canada West in 1853, and was educated at St. Thomas Grammar School and Upper Canada College. He worked as a jo...
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    20,70 €

  • Opera Stories From Wagner (Esprios Classics)
    Florence Akin
    'In these stories you will find some wonderful giants. You will find beautiful maidens who lived in a river. You will find a large family of little black dwarfs who lived under the river, and you will find a splendid hero. The little children of Germany used to curl up in their mothers’ arms, when bedtime came, and listen to the stories of these strange people. When these littl...
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    18,53 €

  • A Handful of Stars (Esprios Classics)
    F. W. Boreham / FWBoreham
    Frank William Boreham OBE (3 March 1871, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England - 18 May 1959, Melbourne, Victoria) was a Baptist preacher best known in New Zealand, Australia, and England. Boreham became a Baptist preacher after conversion to Christianity while working in London. He was probably the last student interviewed by Charles Spurgeon for entry into his Pastor’s College. Afte...
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    22,97 €

  • Debit and Credit, Volume I (Esprios Classics)
    Gustav Freytag
    Gustav Freytag (1816 - 1895) was a German novelist and playwright. His literary fame was made universal by the publication in 1855 of his novel, Soll und Haben (Debit and Credit), which was translated into almost all European languages. It was translated into English by Georgiana Harcourt in 1857. It was hailed as one of the best German novels and praised for its sturdy but une...
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    28,95 €

  • Charles Dickens as a Reader (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Kent
    Charles (William Charles Mark) Kent (1823-1902) was an English poet, biographer, and journalist, born in London. After completing his education at Prior Park and Oscott, he became editor of the Sun (1845-70), studied law at the same time and was called to the bar in 1859 as a member of Middle Temple, but thereafter devoted himself to literature. He edited Weekly Register, a Rom...
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    22,13 €

  • The George Sand- Gustave Flaubert Letters (Esprios Classics)
    George Sand
    Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1 July 1804 - 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist, and journalist. One of the more popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Roman...
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    31,89 €

  • A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Esprios Classics)
    Bartolomé de las Casas
    Bartolomé de las Casas (11 November 1484 - 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish landowner, friar, priest, and bishop, famed as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman then became a Dominican friar and priest. He was appointed as the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed 'Protector of the Indians'. His extensive wr...
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    19,54 €


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