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  • The Flag-Raising (Esprios Classics)
    Kate Douglas Wiggin
    Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith (1856-1923) was an American children’s author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the 'Silver Street Free Kindergarten'). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Sto...
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    17,24 €

  • The Woman Who Dared (Esprios Classics)
    Epes Sargent
    Epes Sargent (September 27, 1813- December 30, 1880) was an American editor, poet and playwright. By 1831 he was working as an editor for the Boston Daily Advertiser. He then went to work editing the Boston Daily Atlas where he also served as its Washington D. C. correspondent. While reporting political affairs he became friends with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John C. Calho...
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    21,43 €

  • The Mask (Esprios Classics)
    Arthur Hornblow
    'Advices from Cape Town report the finding on a farm near Fontein, a hundred miles north of here, of a diamond which in size is only second to the famous Koh-i-noor. The stone, which is in the shape of an egg with the top cut off, weighs 1,649 carats, and was discovered after blasting at the foot of some rocks on land adjacent to the tract owned by the Americo-African Mining Co...
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    25,23 €

  • The Fortunes of Oliver Horn (Esprios Classics)
    F. Hopkinson Smith / FHopkinson Smith
    Francis Hopkinson Smith (October 23, 1838 - April 7, 1915) was a United States author, artist and engineer. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many famous stories and received awards for his paintings. Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from the Boys’...
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    28,22 €

  • History and Culture of Guam
    Brandon Bell
    History and Culture of Guam. The beginning of the Chamorro race, The Settlement of American, The Governance, People and tradition. Guam is an unincorporated territory of the United States governed under the Organic Act of Guam, passed by the United States Congress and approved by the president on Aug. one, nineteen fifty. The Organic Act made all Chamorros United States. citize...
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    34,96 €

  • Bahamas Islands, Vacation Paradise
    Thomas Bailey
    Bahamas Islands, Vacation Paradise. Caribbean. Nassau, the capital city of The Bahamas, is a wonderful vacation destination because you’re not far from the bustling hub of a city, but you still have the relaxing and glorious beaches at your doorstep. Nassau is located on the island of New Providence and the main harbour is protected by Paradise Island, which is accessible via N...
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    34,53 €

  • Spoon River Anthology (Esprios Classics)
    Edgar Lee Masters
    Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one...
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    25,29 €

  • Life in Belize
    James Baker
    Life in Belize. Caribbean Tour. With one foot in the Central American jungles and the other in the Caribbean Sea, pint-sized Belize is packed with islands, adventure and culture. Belize Barrier Reef is the second largest in the world, after Australia’s, and with more than 100 types of coral and some 500 species of tropical fish, it’s pure paradise for scuba divers and snorkeler...
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    36,82 €

  • Berlin, Germany Tour
    James Baker
    Berlin, Germany Tour. Europe Tourism, Vacation and Business Guide. Berlin’s combo of glamour and grit is bound to mesmerise all those keen to explore its vibrant culture, cutting-edge architecture, fabulous food, intense parties and tangible history. Forget about New York Berlin is the city that truly never sleeps. Sometimes it seems as though Berliners are the lotus-eaters of ...
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    35,78 €

  • Cardiff Touristic Guide, Wales
    Lucas Ball
    Cardiff Touristic Guide, United kingdom. Tourism, Holiday Guide, Honeymoon The capital of Wales since just 1955, Cardiff has embraced the role with vigour, emerging in the new millennium as one of Britain’s leading urban centres. Spread between an ancient fort and an ultramodern waterfront, compact Cardiff seems to have surprised even itself with how interesting it has become. ...
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    34,70 €

  • Cesky Krumlov
    Lucas Ball
    Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic, the People. Cesky Krumlov, in Bohemia’s deep south, is one of the most picturesque towns in Europe. It’s a little like Prague in miniature a Unesco World Heritage Site with a stunning castle above the Vltava River, an old town square, Renaissance and baroque architecture, and hordes of tourists milling through the streets but all on a smaller scal...
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    34,54 €

  • When a Man’s a Man (Esprios Classics)
    Harold Bell Wright
    Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944) was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and nonfiction. Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, he had a very successful career; he is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction. Between 1902 and 1942 Wright ...
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    25,93 €

  • The Hispanic Nations of the New World (Esprios Classics)
    William R. Shepherd / William RShepherd
    William Robert Shepherd (1871 in Charleston, South Carolina - 1934 in Berlin, Germany) was an American cartographer and historian specializing in American and Latin American history. In 1896, Shepherd completed his PhD at Columbia University. He then studied in Berlin and finally became professor of history at Columbia University. He is best known for his Historical Atlas, publ...
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    21,50 €

  • The Taming of Red Butte Western (Esprios Classics)
    Francis Lynde
    Francis Lynde (1856-1930) was an American author. Three of his books were adapted to film. He was born in Lewiston, New York, and wrote adventure novels set in the American West in the early 20th century. The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library has a collection of his papers. His novels were set in the mountains of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Railroading and mining...
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    25,15 €

  • The Conquest of Canaan (Esprios Classics)
    Booth Tarkington
    Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America’s greatest living author. Several of...
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    24,40 €

  • Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. - Volume II (Esprios Classics)
    Henry Hunt
    Henry 'Orator' Hunt (1773-1835) was a British radical speaker and agitator remembered as a pioneer of working-class radicalism and an important influence on the later Chartist movement. He advocated parliamentary reform and the repeal of the Corn Laws. Hunt became a prosperous farmer. He was first drawn into radical politics during the Napoleonic Wars, becoming a supporter of F...
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    26,76 €

  • Shining Ferry (Esprios Classics)
    A. T. Quiller-Couch / ATQuiller-Couch
    Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863 - 1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250-1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism. He influenced many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84,...
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    25,91 €

  • Dream Tales and Prose Poems (Esprios Classics)
    Ivan Turgenev
    Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-cent...
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    24,42 €

  • Captains of the Civil War (Esprios Classics)
    William Wood
    William Charles Henry Wood, (1864-1947) was a Canadian historian, Scout leader and naturalist. He was born in Quebec City and served in the Royal Rifles of Canada from 1887 to the end of the World War One achieving the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was active in literary and history circles and served as President of the Quebec Literary and Historical Society. He was intereste...
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    25,25 €

  • The Last of the Mohicans (Esprios Classics)
    James Fenimore Cooper
    James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is particularly remembered as a novelist, who wrote numerous sea-stories as well as the historical romances known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, which many peopl...
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    29,69 €

  • Unknown to History
    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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    31,97 €

  • John Barleycorn (Esprios Classics)
    Jack London
    Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle me...
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    22,14 €

  • The World for Sale (Esprios Classics)
    Gilbert Parker
    Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (1862- 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario. He was educated at Ottawa and at University of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Parker started as a teacher at the Ontario School for the deaf and dumb (in Belleville, Ontario). From there he...
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    25,92 €

  • When Valmond Came to Pontiac (Esprios Classics)
    Gilbert Parker
    Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (1862- 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario. He was educated at Ottawa and at University of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Parker started as a teacher at the Ontario School for the deaf and dumb (in Belleville, Ontario). From there he...
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    21,37 €

  • Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II (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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    31,94 €

  • Finding Firmer Ground
    Minghao Li / Wendong Zhang
    This impressive study and analysis by Dr. Minghao Li and Dr. Wendong Zhang, entitled 'Finding Firmer Ground' adds a significant analytical element to the effort to enhance the Sino - American relationship through increased 'Agricultural Cooperation' here in the Heartland of America, the part of the United States that has such a long and illustrious history of leadership in buil...
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    33,09 €

  • Henry VI, Part 2 (Esprios Classics)
    William Shakespeare
    Henry VI, Part 2 (often written as 2 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas Henry VI, Part 1 deals primarily with the loss of England’s French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses, and Henry VI, Part 3 deals with the horror...
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    22,15 €

  • Henry IV, Part 1 (Esprios Classics)
    William Shakespeare
    Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare’s tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV (two plays, including Henry IV, Part 2), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur’s battle at Homildon in Northumberland ag...
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    21,37 €

  • A London Life, and Other Tales (Esprios Classics)
    Henry James
    Henry James OM (1843-1916) was an Anglo-American novelist. He was one of the most important literary people of the late 19th century. James was the son of Henry James Senior, a clergyman, and the brother of William James, the psychologist and philosopher. He grew up mostly in the United States but spent the majority of his life in England. He became a British citizen in 1915. H...
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    25,16 €

  • Virginia of Elk Creek Valley (Esprios Classics)
    Mary Ellen Chase
    Mary Ellen Chase (24 February 1887 - 28 July 1973) was an American educator, teacher, scholar, and author. She is regarded as one of the most important regional New England literary figures of the early twentieth century. Chase earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine in 1909, then both a master’s and Ph. D. in English from the University of Minnesota. During thi...
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    22,15 €


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