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  • The Fall River Tragedy - A History of the Borden Murders
    Edwin H. Porter / Edwin HPorter
    Originally published in 1893, “The Fall River Tragedy” is a detailed account of the case of Lizzie Andrew Borden (1860–1927), an American woman who was tried but found not guilty for the brutal murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. There were no other suspects in the case and after her acquittal no one was ever charged for the murders. She remained ...
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    29,55 €

  • Just David
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    David has been living in the mountains with his father, a perfect life of love and music. When his father falls ill they head into town where they take refuge in a barn. When he is found the next morning with his father dead, the family learns that the boy knows nothing about any extended family. He cannot tell them anything about himself other than his first name, David. Reluc...
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    10,74 €

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
    H. Porter Abbott / HPorter Abbott
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    41,68 €

  • Pollyanna
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    For most children being an orphan sent to live with your cold, stern, spinster aunt might be enough to dull their spirits. But not for 11-year-old Pollyanna Whittier. Thanks to 'The Glad Game', an optimistic and positive attitude she learned from her father, Pollyanna begins to transform the town of Beldingsville, Vermont, into one of the most pleasant places to live in all the...
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    11,85 €

  • Pollyanna grows up
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    Eleanor H. Porter’s classic sequel to her adored novel, 'Pollyanna'. In 'Pollyanna Grows Up', the maturing Pollyanna teaches her 'Glad Game' to more of the townspeople and makes new friends, including Sadie and Jamie. When Pollyanna and her Aunt must support themselves following the death of Dr. Chilton, they take on boarders at their home, where we also learn more about the pa...
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    22,02 €

  • Dagon
    Constance H. Porter / Constance HPorter
    Constance H. Porter grew up hearing stories about her family history. Her grandmother taught her about love, compassion, kindness, and forgiveness; these lessons became the foundation of the person she is today. In Dagon, Porter pays tribute to her grandmother, Dagon.This memoir narrates the grandmother’s life story, sharing how she got the name 'Dagon.' Born in 1875, her paren...
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    16,29 €

  • Just David
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist, most known for Pollyanna (1913) and Just David (1916).Eleanor Emily Hodgman was born in Littleton, New Hampshire, on December 19, 1868, the daughter of Llewella French (née Woolson) and Francis Fletcher Hodgman. She was trained as a singer, attending the New England Conservatory for severa...
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    16,40 €

  • The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
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    10,03 €

  • Pollyanna
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
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    15,49 €

  • Pollyana
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
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    15,38 €

  • Wheels and Wheeling - An Indispensable Handbook for Cyclists
    Luther H. Porter / Luther HPorter
    This book contains a vintage guide to cycling. Published at the time when cycling first became popular, this volume offers a fascinating insight into the sport’s history and development, containing chapters on such subjects as tricycles, uncommon and unconventional bicycles, the first innovations in suspension, and more. With over two hundred illustrations, 'The Steel Horse' is...
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    30,65 €

  • Cycling for Health and Pleasure - An Indispensable Guide to the Successful Use of the Wheel
    Luther H. Porter / Luther HPorter
    'Cycling for Health and Pleasure' presents the reader with a detailed and accessible guide to cycling, with chapters on learning to cycle, preventing accidents, appropriate attire, etiquette, touring, and much more. Both a fascinating insight into cycling a hundred years ago and a timeless handbook for modern cyclists, this volume will be of considerable utility to beginners an...
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    26,86 €

  • Real Mysteries
    H. Porter Abbott / HPorter Abbott
    The influential and widely respected narrative theorist, H. Porter Abbott, breaks new ground in Real Mysteries:Narrative and the Unknowable. In it, he revisits the ancient theme of what we cannot know about ourselves and others. But in a sharp departure, he shifts the focus from the representation of this theme to the ways narrative can be manipulated to immerse 'the willing ...
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    40,70 €

  • Pollyanna
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    When poor orphan Pollyanna is sent to live with her wealthy Aunt Polly, she shocks the small town of Beldingsville, Vermont, with sunshine and optimism. With boundless enthusiasm, Pollyanna befriends the most unlikely people, teaching them to see the bright side of any situation through her infectious “glad game.” A classic of children’s literature, Pollyanna will make you glad...
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    11,96 €

  • The Magic Cookbook
    Pam H. Porter / Pam HPorter
    Molly McGregor wishes she could get her art on the cover of the newspaper, Daisy Humphrey desperately wants a puppy, and Eva Perez longs to be in charge of the school’s holiday fair. When the three girls stumble across a magic cookbook at the town’s new bookshop, they start to believe that it just might help their dreams come true. Little do they know that The Magic Cookbook an...
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    15,19 €

  • Horace’s Poetic Journey
    David H. Porter / David HPorter
    David Porter’s approach to Horace’s most important lyric collection is through a close sequential reading of the eighty-eight poems in Odes 1-3. Taking into account the way an ancient book was read or recited, this view of the work as a continuously unfolding creation reveals a strong sense of forward movement and of thematic development, at times almost a narrative flow.Origin...
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    66,44 €

  • Just David
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    Originally published by Houghton Mifflin, it tells the story of a young boy, David, who must learn to adapt to living with others after the death of his recluse father; along the way, the villagers and his adoptive parents adopt as much or more to him. Though criticized by reviewers as 'mush' and 'too perfectly lovely, 'the novel was very popular in the early half of the twent...
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    17,52 €

  • Pollyana
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    Pollyanna Whittier, is a young orphan who goes to live in Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy but stern Aunt Polly. Pollyanna’s philosophy of life centers on what she calls 'The Glad Game', an optimistic attitude she learned from her father. The game consists of finding something to be glad about in every situation. ...
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    9,85 €

  • Pollyanna Grows Up
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    Oringinally published in 1915, this book contains the classic novel ’Pollyanna Grows Up’, the sequel to the 1912 novel ’Pollyanna’, and will prove a itself a delightful read for any romantic. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordab...
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    26,35 €

  • Just David
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    An unabridged, fully illustrated edition of the Eleanor Porter’s (1916) classic, to include ’The Mountain Home’, The Lady of the Roses’, ’Puzzles’, Secrets’, ’Two Letters’ and ’The Beautiful World’ ...
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    11,02 €

  • Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages V5 (1841)
    H. Porter / Henry Chettle / HPorter / Thomas Dekker
    ''Early English Poetry, Ballads, And Popular Literature Of The Middle Ages V5'' is a book written by Henry Chettle and originally published in 1841. This book is a compilation of various works of literature from the Middle Ages, including poetry, ballads, and other popular writings. The fifth volume of the series, it features a variety of works from the early English period, in...
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    40,67 €

  • Miss Billy
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
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    22,79 €

  • Pollyanna Grows Up
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    Eleanor Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist. Born in Littleton, New Hampshire, Eleanor Hodgman was trained as a singer but later turned to writing. In 1892, she married John Lyman Porter and moved to Massachusetts. Porter mainly wrote children’s literature, including three Miss Billy books (Miss Billy, Miss Billy’s Decision, and Miss Bil...
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    30,15 €

  • Dawn
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    It was on his fourteenth birthday that Keith Burton discovered the Great Terror, though he did not know it by that name until some days afterward. He knew only, to his surprise and distress, that the 'Treasure Island,' given to him by his father for a birthday present, was printed in type so blurred and poor that he could scarcely read it. He said nothing, of course. In fa...
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    23,41 €

  • Just David
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    Far up on the mountain-side stood alone in the clearing. It was roughly yet warmly built. Behind it jagged cliffs broke the north wind, and towered gray-white in the sunshine. Before it a tiny expanse of green sloped gently away to a point where the mountain dropped in another sharp descent, wooded with scrubby firs and pines. At the left a footpath led into the cool depths of ...
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    22,43 €

  • Mary Marie
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    Father calls me Mary. Mother calls me Marie. Everybody else calls me Mary Marie. The rest of my name is Anderson. I’m thirteen years old, and I’m a cross-current and a contradiction. That is, Sarah says I’m that. (Sarah is my old nurse.) She says she read it once-that the children of unlikes were always a cross-current and a contradiction. And my father and mother are unli...
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    21,16 €

  • Miss Billy Married
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    'I, Bertram, take thee, Billy,' chanted the white-robed clergyman. '’I, Bertram, take thee, Billy,’ 'echoed the tall young ridegroom, his eyes gravely tender. 'To my wedded wife.' '’To my wedded wife.'’ The bridegroom’s voice shook a little. 'To have and to hold from this day forward.' 'To have and to hold from this day forward.' Now the young voice ra...
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    23,47 €

  • Miss Billy’s Decision
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    Calderwell had met Mr. M. J. Arkwright in London through a common friend; since then they had tramped half over Europe together in a comradeship that was as delightful as it was unusual. As Calderwell put it in a letter to his sister, Belle: 'We smoke the same cigar and drink the same tea (he’s just as much of an old woman on that subject as I am!), and we agree beautifull...
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    23,47 €

  • Oh, Money! Money!
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars. He was a tall, spare man, with a fringe of reddish-brown hair encircling a bald spot. His blue eyes, fixed just now in a steady gaze upon a row of ponderous law books across the room, were friendly and benevolent in direct contradiction to the bulldog, never-let-go fighting qual...
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    23,41 €

  • Pollyanna Grows Up
    Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor HPorter
    Della Wetherby tripped up the somewhat imposing steps of her sister’s Commonwealth Avenue home and pressed an energetic finger against the electric-bell button. From the tip of her wing-trimmed hat to the toe of her low-heeled shoe she radiated health, capability, and alert decision. Even her voice, as she greeted the maid that opened the door, vibrated with the joy of living. ...
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    23,51 €


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