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  • My Canadian Leaves (Esprios Classics)
    Frances E. O. Monck / Frances EOMonck
    'Ship 'Asia,' Monday Evening, Cabin 67, May 16th, 1864.-You will like a journal even begun in this terrible hole of suffering humanity. I think so much of you all and of lovely Ryde. Blayney will tell you all about us[1]-of our fog between Holyhead and Kingstown when we stopped in the middle of the sea and nearly ran down a brig, of our friendship with Mr. Maguire, the M. P. fo...
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  • Debit and Credit, Volume II (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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  • Liguori’s Meditations on the Last Things
    St. Alphonsus Liguori / StAlphonsus Liguori
    These meditations were originally composed in the 18th century by St. Alphonsus Liguori(1696 - 1787), a Catholic bishop from the Naples region in Italy. They first appeared in English in 1886 in Eugene Grimm’s (1835-1891) 'Complete Ascetical Works of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori: The way of salvation and of perfection.' The meditations are aimed at awakening the reader to the sha...
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    16,79 €

  • Damn! A Book of Calumny (Esprios Classics)
    H. L. Mencken / HLMencken
    Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the 'Monkey Trial,' also gained him attention. As ...
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  • Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons (Esprios Classics)
    Henry C. Mahoney / Henry CMahoney
    'It was whilst suffering the agonies of solitary confinement in the military prison of Wesel that I first decided to record my experiences so that readers might be able to glean some idea of the inner workings and the treatment meted out to our unfortunate compatriots who were travelling in Germany at the outbreak of war and who have since been interned.From the moment of my de...
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    26,72 €

  • Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings (Esprios Classics)
    Mary F. Sandars / Mary FSandars
    'Books about Balzac would fill a fair-sized library. Criticisms on his novels abound, and his contemporaries have provided us with several amusing volumes dealing in a humorous spirit with his eccentricities, and conveying the impression that the author of 'La Cousine Bette' and 'Le Pere Goriot' was nothing more than an amiable buffoon.Nevertheless, by some strange anomaly, the...
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    24,43 €

  • Tales of War (Esprios Classics)
    Lord Dunsany
    Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. His œuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, and during the...
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    19,45 €

  • The Coming of the British to Australia, 1788 to 1829 (Esprios Classics)
    Ida Lee
    Ida Louisa Lee, (11 February 1865 - 3 October 1943), historian and poet, was born at Kelso, New South Wales. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1914 and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society . Lee wrote a number of historical texts, some of which contain previously unpublished material. Lee was the third child of grazier and p...
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  • The Hawarden Visitors’ Hand-Book (Esprios Classics)
    William Henry Gladstone
    William Henry Gladstone (1840-1891) was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament, and the eldest son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and his wife Catherine née Glynne. Gladstone was born in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales. He attended Eton College and read Greek and Latin at Christ Church, Oxford University. He was a member of parliament for a total of 20 years, repre...
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    19,29 €

  • Myths and Legends of the Sioux (Esprios Classics)
    Mrs. Marie L. McLaughlin / MrsMarie LMcLaughlin
    'An Arikara woman was once gathering corn from the field to store away for winter use. She passed from stalk to stalk, tearing off the ears and dropping them into her folded robe. When all was gathered she started to go, when she heard a faint voice, like a child’s, weeping and calling: 'Oh, do not leave me! Do not go away without me. '' ...
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    21,46 €

  • A Year’s Journey Through France and Part of Spain - Volume II (Esprios Classics)
    Philip Thicknesse
    Captain Philip Thicknesse (1719 - 23 November 1792) was an English author, eccentric, and friend of the artist Thomas Gainsborough. Thicknesse visited the Colony of Georgia in September 1736, but returned to England in 1737, claiming to be the first of the emigrants to return. He obtained a commission as a Captain of an independent company in Jamaica after 1737, and on an exped...
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    20,69 €

  • The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume II (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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  • Sac-Au-Dos (Esprios Classics)
    J. K. Huysmans / JKHuysmans
    Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (5 February 1848 - 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans, variably abbreviated as J. K. or J.-K.). He is most famous for the novel À rebours (1884, published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature). He supported himself by a 30-year career in the French civil service. Huysmans’ ...
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  • The Life Story of an Old Rebel (Esprios Classics)
    John Denvir
    'I owe both the title of this book and the existence of the book itself to the suggestion of friends. I suppose a man of 76 may be called 'old,' although I have by no means given up the idea that I can still be of use to my country.And a Rebel? Yes! Anything of the nature of injustice or oppression has always stirred me to resentment, and-is it to be wondered at?-most of all wh...
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    22,88 €

  • The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume I (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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    22,91 €

  • Ethics in Service (Esprios Classics)
    William H. Taft / William HTaft
    William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909-1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split t...
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  • State of the Union Address (Esprios Classics)
    William H. Taft / William HTaft
    William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909-1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split t...
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  • Montaigne and Shakspere (Esprios Classics)
    John M. Robertson / John MRobertson
    John Mackinnon Robertson PC (14 November 1856 - 5 January 1933) was a prolific journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918. Robertson was best known as an advocate of the Christ myth theory. He wrote in February 1906 to a friend that he 'gave up the ’divine’' when he was a teenager. It...
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    19,79 €

  • Tacitus on Germany (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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  • The Germany and the Agricola 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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    20,65 €

  • The Quarterly Review, Volume CLXII, No. CCCXXIV
    Various
    Some of our readers are not likely yet to have forgotten the remarkable essay which the late Professor Brewer contributed to our pages in 1871, and which has since been reprinted in the volume of ’English Studies,’ published shortly after the author’s death in 1879. English History owes a larger debt to few men of our time than it owes to Mr. Brewer. As a teacher whose pupils w...
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  • The Modern Scottish Minstrel; or, The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century - Volume II (Esprios Classics)
    Various
    'Scotland has probably produced a more patriotic and more extended minstrelsy than any other country in the world. Those Caledonian harp-strains, styled by Sir Walter Scott 'gems of our own mountains,' have frequently been gathered into caskets of national song, but have never been stored in any complete cabinet; while no attempt has been made, at least on an ample scale, to ad...
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  • The Modern Scottish Minstrel; or, The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century - Volume V (Esprios Classics)
    Various
    'Scotland has probably produced a more patriotic and more extended minstrelsy than any other country in the world. Those Caledonian harp-strains, styled by Sir Walter Scott 'gems of our own mountains,' have frequently been gathered into caskets of national song, but have never been stored in any complete cabinet; while no attempt has been made, at least on an ample scale, to ad...
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  • Captain Cook
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
    William Henry Giles Kingston (28 February 1814 - 5 August 1880), often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys’ adventure novels. His first book The Circassian Chief appeared in 1844. His first book for boys Peter the Whaler was published in 1851 and had such success that he retired from business and devoted himself entirely to the production of this kind o...
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  • Asser’s life of King Alfred
    Asser Bishop of Sherborne
    Alfred the Great (848 - 899) was a king in West Saxon and then the first king of the Anglo-Saxons, king of Britain. He spent his early career fighting Viking invasions, until in 878 he won a decisive victory against them, and then personally oversaw the conversion of the Viking leader to Christianity. He left a legacy for being gracious, rational, peaceable, and generally worki...
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    7,17 €

  • Classic French Course in English (Esprios Classics)
    William Cleaver Wilkinson
    William Cleaver Wilkinson, DD. (October 19, 1833 in Westford, Vermont - April 25, 1920 in Chicago) was a Baptist preacher, professor of theology, professor of poetry, and literary figure. He popularized the 'Three W’s and the Five W’s'. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1857 and the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1859. After his graduation, he visited Great Br...
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    23,68 €

  • The Trials of the Soldier’s Wife (Esprios Classics)
    Alex St. Clair Abrams / Alex StClair Abrams
    'Kind reader, have you ever been to New Orleans? If not, we will attempt to describe the metropolis of the Confederate States of America.New Orleans is situated on the Mississippi river, and is built in the shape of a crescent, from which it derives the appellation of 'Crescent City.' The inhabitants-that is, the educated class-are universally considered as the most refined and...
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  • Of Natural and Supernatural Things, and Others (Esprios Classics)
    Basilius Valentinus
    Basil Valentine is the Anglicised version of the name Basilius Valentinus, ostensibly a 15th-century alchemist, possibly Canon of the Benedictine Priory of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany but more likely a pseudonym used by one or several 16th-century German authors. According to John Maxson Stillman, who wrote on the history of chemistry, there is no evidence of such a name on ...
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  • Raiding With Morgan (Esprios Classics)
    Byron A. Dunn / Byron ADunn
    'The Southerners had lost their beloved commander, slain; a third of their number had fallen. Although defeated they had not been conquered. They had set forth from Corinth in the highest hopes, fully expecting to drive Grant’s army into the Tennessee River. This hope was almost realized, when it suddenly perished: twenty thousand fresh troops had arrived upon the field, and th...
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  • The Meaning of Surah 01 Al-Fatihah Opener (La Apertura) From Holy Quran Bilingual Edition English And Spanish
    Jannah Firdaus Mediapro
    Surah al-Fatiḥah (Arabic: سُورَةُ الْفَاتِحَة‎) is the first chapter (surah) of the Quran. Its seven verses (ayat) are a prayer for the guidance, lordship and mercy of God. This chapter has an essential role in Islamic prayer (salat). The primary literal meaning of the expression 'al-Fatiḥah' is 'The Opener,' which could refer to this Surah being 'the opener of the Book' (Fatiḥ...
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