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  • The Automobilist Abroad (Esprios Classics)
    Francis Miltoun
    'We have progressed appreciably beyond the days of the old horseless carriage, which, it will be remembered, retained even the dashboard. To-day the modern automobile somewhat resembles, in its outlines, across between a decapod locomotive and a steam fire-engine, or at least something concerning the artistic appearance of which the layman has very grave doubts.' ...
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    25,92 €

  • The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America (Esprios Classics)
    Beale M. Schmucker / Beale MSchmucker
    Beale Melanchthon Schmucker (1827-1888) was an American Lutheran leader, liturgical scholar and historian. He was graduated from Pennsylvania College during 1844. In 1847, Schmucker was a graduate of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Schmucker served as Secretary of the Alumni Association of Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary at the time of his death in 1888. In 1870...
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    18,38 €

  • American Men of Action (Esprios Classics)
    Burton E. Stevenson / Burton EStevenson
    Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872-1962) was an American author, anthologist, and librarian. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and attended Princeton University 1890-1893. While at Princeton, Stevenson was a correspondent for United Press and for the New York Tribune. He was city editor for the Chillicothe Daily News (1894-1898), and worked for the Daily Advertiser (1898-1899). Stev...
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    25,21 €

  • The Gardener (Esprios Classics)
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquets Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter from Bengal. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the ''profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse'' of Gi...
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    19,73 €

  • If (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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    22,22 €

  • Mazelli, and Other Poems (Esprios Classics)
    George W. Sands / George WSands
    '''Stay, traveller, stay thy weary steed,The sultry hour of noon is near,Of rest thy way-worn limbs have need,Stay, then, and, taste its sweetness here.The mountain path which thou hast spedIs steep, and difficult to tread,And many a farther step ’twill cost,Ere thou wilt find another host;But if thou scorn’st not humble fare,Such as the pilgrim loves to share,-Not luxury’s enf...
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    20,65 €

  • Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land (Esprios Classics)
    Rosa Praed
    Rosa Campbell Praed (1851-1935), often credited as Mrs Campbell Praed (and also known as Rosa Caroline Praed), was an Australian novelist. Her large bibliography covered multiple genres, and books for children as well as adults. She has been described as the first Australian novelist to achieve a significant international reputation. Rosa had a passion for reading and writing f...
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    27,47 €

  • The Canterbury Puzzles (Esprios Classics)
    Henry Ernest Dudeney
    Henry Ernest Dudeney (10 April 1857 - 23 April 1930) was an English author and mathematician who specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games. He is known as one of the country’s foremost creators of mathematical puzzles. Although Dudeney spent his career in the Civil Service, he continued to devise various problems and puzzles. Dudeney’s first puzzle contributions were ...
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    25,20 €

  • Gitanjali (Esprios Classics)
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquets Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter from Bengal. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the ''profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse'' of Gi...
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    18,10 €

  • 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 €

  • The Manor House and Other Poems (Esprios Classics)
    Ada Cambridge
    Ada Cambridge (21 November 1844 - 19 July 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian writer. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works. Many of her novels were serialised in Australian newspapers but never published in book form. While she was known to friends and family by her married name, Ada Cross, h...
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  • The Finer Grain (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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    22,24 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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  • Narrative and Legendary Poems
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 - September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings, as well as his 1866 book Snow-Bound. Whittier was first i...
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    18,31 €

  • 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 €

  • The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems (Esprios Classics)
    Kate Seymour MacLean
    'The request of the author that I should write a few words of preface to this collection of poems must be my excuse for obtruding myself upon the reader. Having frequently had the pleasure as editor of The Canadian Monthly, of introducing many of Mrs. MacLean’s poems to lovers of verse in the Dominion it was thought not unfitting that I should act as foster father to the collec...
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    20,62 €

  • Stray Birds (Esprios Classics)
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquets Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter from Bengal. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the 'profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse' of Gita...
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    18,16 €

  • Songs of Kabir (Esprios Classics)
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquets Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter from Bengal. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the 'profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse' of Gita...
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    18,38 €

  • 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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  • Canada and the States Recollections 1851 to 1886 (Esprios Classics)
    Sir E. W. Watkin / Sir EWWatkin
    Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet (26 September 1819 - 13 April 1901) was a British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur. He was an ambitious visionary, and presided over large-scale railway engineering projects to fulfil his business aspirations, eventually rising to become chairman of nine different British railway companies. Among his more notable projects were...
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    28,22 €

  • Mrs. Piper and the Society for Psychical Research (Esprios Classics)
    Michael Sage
    Leonora Piper (née Leonora Evelina Simonds; 27 June 1857 - 3 June 1950) was a famous American trance medium in the area of Spiritualism. Piper was the subject of intense interest and investigation by American and British psychic research associations during the early 20th century, most notably William James and the Society for Psychical Research. Researchers and scientists who ...
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    21,41 €

  • 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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    22,94 €

  • 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 Boy Allies Under Two Flags (Esprios Classics)
    Robert L. Drake / Robert LDrake
    ''Boom! Boom! 'Thus spoke the two forward guns on the little scout cruiser HMS. Sylph, Lord Hasting, commander.'A hit! ' cried Jack, who, from his position in the pilot house, had watched the progress of the missiles hurled at the foe.'Good work! ' shouted Frank, his excitement so great that he forgot the gunners were unable to hear him.' ...
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  • A Soldier of Virginia (Esprios Classics)
    Burton E. Stevenson / Burton EStevenson
    Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872-1962) was an American author, anthologist, and librarian. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and attended Princeton University 1890-1893. While at Princeton, Stevenson was a correspondent for United Press and for the New York Tribune. He was city editor for the Chillicothe Daily News (1894-1898), and worked for the Daily Advertiser (1898-1899). Stev...
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    23,63 €

  • Animal Figures in the Maya Codices (Esprios Classics)
    Alfred M. Tozzer / Alfred MTozzer
    Alfred M Tozzer, a very influential voice in the field of Maya during the early half of the twentieth century, proposed that the Maya at Chichen Itza were overcome by the Toltecs three times, which subverted their culture progressively. The first invasion supposedly was of Toltecs, and was led by the mythological figure Kukulcan. The second was an invasion of Toltec-ized Itza (...
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    22,99 €

  • The 30-minute City
    David M Levinson
    This book describes how to implement the 30-Minute city. The first part of the book explains accessibility. We next consider access through history (chapter 2). Access is the driving force behind how cities were built. Its use today is described when looking at access and the Greater Sydney Commission’s plan for Sydney.We then examine short-run fixes: things that can be done in...
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    82,98 €


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