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  • The Indolence of the Filipino (Esprios Classics)
    José Rizal
    José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (June 19, 1861 - December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is tagged as the national hero (pambansang bayani) of the Filipino people. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement,...
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    16,40 €

  • As We Were Saying (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner was born of Puritan descent in Plainfield, Massachusetts. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri and then studied law at the University of Pennsylvania. He moved to Chicago, w...
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    18,61 €

  • Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 (Esprios Classics)
    Frederick Jackson Turner
    Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 - March 14, 1932) was an American historian during the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin until 1910, and then at Harvard. He was known primarily for his 'Frontier Thesis'. He trained many PhDs who became well-known historians. He promoted interdisciplinary and quantitative methods, often with an emphasis on the ...
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    23,63 €

  • Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (Esprios Classics)
    George B. Worgan / George BWorgan
    George Bouchier Worgan (May 1757 - 4 March 1838) was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made several expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay areas north of Sydney and spent a year on Norfolk Island after the Sirius was wrecked there. There is no evidence that George Worgan was on board the Sirius when it was wrecked off Norfolk ...
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    18,13 €

  • The Hope of the Gospel (Esprios Classics)
    George MacDonald
    George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works of Christian theology, including several collections of sermons. His writings have been cited as a major literary influ...
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    20,69 €

  • The Log of a Noncombatant (Esprios Classics)
    Horace Green
    'When the war broke out in August, 1914, I was at work in the City Room of the 'New York Evening Post.' One morning, during the first week of activities, the copy boy handed me a telegram which was signed 'Luther, Boston,' and contained the rather cryptic message: -'How about this fight?'It was some moments before I could recall the time, more than two years before, when I had ...
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    19,51 €

  • The Red Record (Esprios Classics)
    Ida B. Wells-Barnett / Ida BWells-Barnett
    Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, ...
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    19,86 €

  • Lays of Ancient Rome (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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    19,67 €

  • The Rural Life Problem of the United States (Esprios Classics)
    Sir Horace Plunkett
    Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett KCVO PC (Ire) JP DL FRS (24 October 1854 - 26 March 1932), was an Anglo-Irish agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural cooperatives, Unionist MP, supporter of Home Rule, Irish Senator and author. Plunkett, a younger brother of John Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany, was a member of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland for over 27 years, found...
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    18,61 €

  • Love to the Uttermost
    F. B. Meyer / FBMeyer
    Frederick Brotherton Meyer (8 April 1847 - 28 March 1929), a contemporary and friend of D. L. Moody and A. C. Dixon, was a Baptist pastor and evangelist in England involved in ministry and inner city mission work on both sides of the Atlantic. Author of numerous religious books and articles, many of which remain in print today, he was described in an obituary as The Archbishop ...
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    24,46 €

  • Concerning Justice (Esprios Classics)
    Lucilius A. Emery / Lucilius AEmery
    Lucilius A. Emery (July 27, 1840 - August 26, 1920), of Portland, Maine, was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from October 5, 1883 to July 27, 1911. Born in Carmel, Maine, Emery graduated from Bowdoin College in 1861 and read law to gain admission to the bar in 1863, at which time he settled in Ellsworth, Maine. He was the elected to the Maine Senate in 1874 and 18...
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    15,12 €

  • Karl-Ludwig Sand (Esprios Classics)
    Alexandre Dumas
    Alexandre Dumas was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been ada...
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    17,57 €

  • Selected Short Works of Booker T. Washington (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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    21,49 €

  • The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Volume I (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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    21,39 €

  • Pioneering Days
    George Sutherland
    George Sutherland (1 October 1855 - 1 December 1905), was a Scottish-born Australian journalist and writer. He was taken to Sydney, New South Wales in 1864 with his family where he attended Sydney Grammar School. They moved to Melbourne in 1870 and he continued school at Scotch College. He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1877. After teaching for some time he took ...
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    18,41 €

  • Newfoundland and the Jingoes (Esprios Classics)
    John Fretwell
    'It would be evidence of gross ignorance, or something worse, to pretend that the United States, under like conditions, would have treated the Newfoundlanders better than England has done. It would be especially so after the humiliating spectacle presented to the world by our Democratic majorities last year in Congress and in the State and city of New York.' ...
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    17,38 €

  • A Writer’s Recollections, Volume 1 (Esprios Classics)
    Mrs. Humphry Ward / MrsHumphry Ward
    Mary Augusta Ward CBE (née Arnold; 11 June 1851 - 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. She worked to improve education for the poor and she became the founding President of the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League. Ward began her career writing articles for Macmillan’s Magazine while working on a book for children that was...
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    21,40 €

  • Hampton Court (Esprios Classics)
    Walter Jerrold
    Walter Copeland Jerrold (1865-1929) was an English writer, biographer and newspaper editor. Jerrold was born in Liverpool, the son of Thomas Serle Jerrold and Jane Matilda Copeland (who were first cousins), and one of 11 children. Jerrold spent most of his life in London, starting work as a clerk in a newspaper counting-house, and going on to become deputy editor of The Observe...
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    17,35 €

  • France at War (Esprios Classics)
    Rudyard Kipling
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 -1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including 'The Man Who Would Be King' (1888). His poems include 'Mandalay' (1890), 'Gunga Din' (1890), 'The Gods of the Copyboo...
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    17,27 €

  • Too Fat to Fight (Esprios Classics)
    Rex Beach
    Rex Ellingwood Beach (September 1, 1877 - December 7, 1949) was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. He was born in Atwood, Michigan, but moved to Tampa, Florida, with his family where his father was growing fruit trees. Beach was educated at Rollins College, Florida (1891-1896), the Chicago College of Law (1896-97), and Kent College of Law, Chicago ...
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    16,57 €

  • The Free Press (Esprios Classics)
    Hilaire Belloc
    Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 - 16 July 1953) was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong effect on his works. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizen...
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    17,53 €

  • KENNEDY’S TWINS--THE TRILOGY/The Story of JFK’s Secret Sons (Substack Edition 2025)
    Rick Schmidt
    Welcome to the NEW/EXPANDED ’SUBSTACK’ Edition, revised during online postings in 2024, to include a more complete experience regarding the machinations of 'JFK’s Secret Sons.' In 1999, Rick Schmidt completed the 1st draft of his first novel, 'Kennedy’s Twins.' The unusual storyline, about the illegitimate black twin sons of JFK who survive racism and poverty on their way to th...
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    68,99 €

  • KENNEDY’S TWINS--THE TRILOGY/The Story of JFK’s Secret Sons (Substack Edition 2025)
    Rick Schmidt
    Welcome to the NEW/EXPANDED ’SUBSTACK’ Edition, revised during online postings in 2024, to include a more complete experience regarding the machinations of 'JFK’s Secret Sons.' In 1999, Rick Schmidt completed the 1st draft of his first novel, 'Kennedy’s Twins.' The unusual storyline, about the illegitimate black twin sons of JFK who survive racism and poverty on their way to th...
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    48,09 €

  • KENNEDY’S TWINS--THE TRILOGY/The Story of JFK’s Secret Sons (Substack Edition 2025)
    Rick Schmidt
    Welcome to the NEW/EXPANDED ’SUBSTACK’ Edition, revised during online postings in 2024, to include a more complete experience regarding the machinations of 'JFK’s Secret Sons.' In 1999, Rick Schmidt completed the 1st draft of his first novel, 'Kennedy’s Twins.' The unusual storyline, about the illegitimate black twin sons of JFK who survive racism and poverty on their way to th...
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    72,13 €

  • Tactical and Strategic Insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War
    This edited collection reviews the key developments in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war with a view to determining salient developments in modern warfare that must be assessed by Western defence officials and planners. The volume provides an early treatment of the most relevant developments that have been observed in this unfolding battlespace. ...
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    152,43 €

  • Alina
    Malve von Hassell
    In this coming-of-age novel set in the 12th century, Alina, an aspiring musician from Provence, and her brother embark on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to pray for their father’s soul and to escape from their aunt and uncle’s strictures. Their journey east takes them through the Byzantine Empire all the way to Jerusalem, where Alina is embroiled in political intrigue, theft, an...
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    12,47 €

  • Phaedrus, and Lysis (Esprios Classics)
    Plato
    Plato (428/427 or 424/423 - 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential individuals in human history, and the pivotal figure in the history of Ancie...
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    20,61 €

  • Stray Pearls (Esprios Classics)
    Charlotte M. Yonge / Charlotte MYonge
    Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output. She was devoted to the Church of England, and much influenced by John Keble, a near neighbour and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Her novels reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism. She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 100 works, chiefly...
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    28,26 €

  • History of France (Esprios Classics)
    Charlotte M. Yonge / Charlotte MYonge
    Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output. She was devoted to the Church of England, and much influenced by John Keble, a near neighbour and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Her novels reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism. She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 100 works, chiefly...
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    18,50 €

  • Stand by the Union (Esprios Classics)
    Oliver Optic
    William Taylor Adams (July 30, 1822 - March 27, 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Adams first began to write at the age of 28, and his first book, Hatchie, the Guardian Slave (1853), was published under the pseudonym of Warren T. Ashton. It was only a modest success, but Adams was undaunted. ...
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    23,68 €


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