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  • The Story of Mary Ancel (Esprios Classics)
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863) was an English novelist, author and illustrator, who was born in India. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, writing works that displayed a sneakin...
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    17,57 €

  • The Golden Face (Esprios Classics)
    William Le Queux
    William Tufnell Le Queux (2 July 1864 - 13 October 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino), a traveller (in Europe, the Balkans and North Africa), a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio wa...
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    22,94 €

  • Old Roads and New Roads (Esprios Classics)
    William Bodham Donne
    William Bodham Donne (1807-1882) was an English journalist, known also as a librarian and theatrical censor. In 1852 Donne declined the editorship of the Edinburgh Review, but the same year he accepted the librarianship of the London Library. In 1857 he resigned to become Examiner of Plays, in succession to his friend Kemble, a post in the Lord Chamberlain’s Office, where he ha...
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    18,73 €

  • The Roman Traitor, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
    Henry William Herbert
    Henry William Herbert (7 April 1807 - 17 May 1858), pen name Frank Forester, was an English novelist, poet, historian, illustrator, journalist and writer on sport. Starr writes that 'as a classical scholar he had few equals in the United States. His knowledge of English history and literature was extensive; he was a pen-and-ink artist of marked ability; as a sportsman he was un...
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    27,53 €

  • Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador (Esprios Classics)
    William Wood
    William Charles Henry Wood, (7 June 1864 - 2 September 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 I achieving the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was active in literary and history circles and served as President of the Quebec Literary and Historical Societ...
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    19,54 €

  • Cymbeline (Esprios Classics)
    William Shakespeare
    Cymbeline also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain (c. 10-14) and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance or even a come...
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    23,65 €

  • Hamlet (Esprios Classics)
    William Shakespeare
    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare’s longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet’s father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet’s mother. H...
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    23,68 €

  • Henry V (Esprios Classics)
    William Shakespeare
    Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years’ War. In the First Quarto text, it was titled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, which became The Life of Henry the Fifth in the Firs...
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    22,96 €

  • A Voyage to New Holland (Esprios Classics)
    William Dampier
    William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was an English explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia’s first natural historian, as well as one of the most important Briti...
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    20,66 €

  • The Elements of Style
    William Strunk Jr.
    The book’s mantra, make every word tell, is still on point. This much-loved classic will forever be the go-to guide when in need of a hint to make a turn of phrase clearer or a reminder on how to enliven prose with the active voice. The only style manual to ever appear on bestseller lists has explained to millions of readers the basic principals of plain English, making the lea...
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    9,77 €

  • Lesotho Inside-out
    William Allen
    Lesotho Inside-out. South African Nation. Lesotho is a state party to a number of major international conventions, declarations and treaties relating to democracy and political participation. At international level, these instruments include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966, which Lesotho ratified on 9 December 1992. Article 25 of the Covenant prov...
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    34,96 €

  • Libya Aftermath
    William Allen
    Libya Aftermath. Headship and Management Status. A Book on Libya, the entire history of Libyan War aftermath, how is Libya copping without Gadhafi Civil wars most frequently occur in states that lack the resources necessary to sustain the basic institutions of governance and provide public services. Libya, however, was wealthy in comparison with many other war-torn countries. ...
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    35,00 €

  • Madagascar Political Profile
    William Allen
    Political Profile of Madagascar Nation History. Madagascar History Book, about governance and democracy practice, this Book has the entire information on Madagascar history and political governance. Madagascar continued its progress toward democratic consolidation in 2015. Competitive elections for local government positions in July and the Senate in December completed the retu...
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    35,98 €

  • Malawi Historical Information
    William Allen
    Malawi Historical Information, Governance and Economic Development. A History, about Malawi Political Environment, the history of its Political struggle. A History Book on Malawi. Although African nations have made tremendous progress institutionalizing democracy, good governance and the rule of law, all too often these gains are eroded and result in a poor-governance trap. Of ...
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    34,86 €

  • Mali
    William Allen
    Mali. Crises in a Peaceful Nation. A Book on Mali, A History. France’s long-term plan for Mali is remarkably short-sighted. The recent French military intervention in Mali focuses on 'restoring democracy,' without any consideration for the political and economic problems that caused the government’s collapse. The cumbersome colonial era-borders, erected by the French, dividing ...
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    34,83 €

  • Elizabethan Sea-Dogs (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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    20,61 €

  • Schwatka’s Search (Esprios Classics)
    William H. Gilder / William HGilder
    William Henry Gilder (August 16, 1838 - February 5, 1900), was an American soldier, journalist, explorer and writer. From 1871 to 1877, he was managing editor of the Newark Register and from 1878 to 1880 was second in command on the expedition of Frederick Schwatka to King William Land in search of the relics of Sir John Franklin. In 1883 he was in Tongking as a war corresponde...
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    22,88 €

  • Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women (Esprios Classics)
    William Cobbett
    William Cobbett (9 March 1763 - 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, journalist, Member of Parliament and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He and a popular agrarian faction argued that reforming Parliament, abolishing 'rotten boroughs', restraining wanton foreign activity and increasing wages would promote domestic peace and ease the poverty of farm labourers and smallholde...
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    23,63 €

  • The Bobbin Boy; or, How Nat Got His Learning (Esprios Classics)
    William M. Thayer / William MThayer
    Reverend William Makepeace Thayer (1820-1898) was an American author. His works include: Sermon on Moses’ Fugitive Slave Bill (1850), Happy New Year (1853), Gem and Casket (1854), Spots in our Feasts of Charity (1854), Trial of the Spirits (1855), Morning Star (1856), Poor Boy and Merchant Prince (1857), Pioneer Boy, and How He Became President (1863), Nelson (1878), Tact, Push...
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    24,46 €

  • Travels in the United States of America (Esprios Classics)
    William Priest
    'I cannot intrude this volume on the public without informing them, what all my friends will vouch for the truth of, viz. - that on my return from America, in 1797, I wrote the work in its present form for their perusal; and, that conscious of my want of talent as a writer, I resisted all their entreaties for its publication, till within these three months. The public, I presum...
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    19,86 €

  • Bizarre Bazaars
    William Swislow
    The roadside is littered with ordinary places bearing odd names -- sometimes very odd. Here are 600 fabulous head scratchers, from Armegeddon Carpet Cleaners to Sam-n-Ella’s River Club. ...
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    31,79 €

  • Denslow’s Mother Goose (Esprios Classics)
    William Wallace
    The figure of Mother Goose is the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. As a character, she appeared in a song, the first stanza of which often functions now as a nursery rhyme. This, however, was dependent on a Christmas pantomime, a successor to which is still performed in the United Kingdom. The term’s appearance in Engli...
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    21,40 €

  • Literary and Social Essays (Esprios Classics)
    George William Curtis
    George William Curtis (1824 -1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. A Republican, he spoke in favor of African-American equality and civil rights. Curtis returned from Europe in 1850, attractive, accomplished, and ambitious for literary distinction. He settled on Staten Island and instantly plunged into the ...
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    21,41 €

  • Caleb Williams; or, Things as They Are (Esprios Classics)
    William Godwin
    Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Intended as a popularisation of the ideas presented in his 1793 treatise Political Justice Godwin uses Caleb Williams to show how legal and other ...
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    29,65 €

  • Thoughts on Man (Esprios Classics)
    William Godwin
    William Godwin (1756 -1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most famous for two books that he published within the space of a year: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, an attack on political institutions, and Things as They Are...
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    26,74 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra (Esprios Classics)
    William Shakespeare
    Antony and Cleopatra (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed, by the King’s Men, at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre in around 1607; its first appearance in print was in the Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North’s 1579 English translation of Plutarch’s Lives (in ...
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    25,23 €

  • 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 €


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