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  • Sesame and Lilies (Esprios Classics)
    John Ruskin
    John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied...
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    19,86 €

  • The Princess Passes (Esprios Classics)
    A. M. Williamson / AMWilliamson
    Alice Muriel Williamson (1869-1933) was a British novelist. She was Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920)’s wife. Her former name was Alice Muriel Livingston, and she was introducing herself after her marriage as Mrs. C. N. Williamson. Her mystery A Women in Grey (1898) was translated and adapted into Japanese by Kuroiwa Ruiko by the title Ghost Tower in 1901. Alice and her Hus...
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    27,38 €

  • Rural Life and the Rural School (Esprios Classics)
    Joseph Kennedy
    'It is only within the past decade that rural life and the rural school have been recognized as genuine problems for the consideration of the American people. Not many years ago, a president of the United States, acting upon his own initiative, appointed a Rural School Commission to investigate country life and to suggest a solution for some of its problems. That Commission its...
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    20,62 €

  • The Truth About America (Esprios Classics)
    Edward Money
    'Apart from the object with which most authors write, viz. to make money, I purpose this little book to serve three objects.Firstly, to make the United States of America, and the Americans, better known than they are at present to the mass of the English public.Secondly, to put a certain class of emigrants on their guard against the machinations of a few agents in London, who v...
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    20,70 €

  • Edgar Wallace by Himself (Esprios Classics)
    Edgar Wallace
    Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London, and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on his...
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    20,66 €

  • Mufti (Esprios Classics)
    Sapper
    Herman Cyril McNeile, MC (28 September 1888 - 14 August 1937), commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, he started writing short stories and getting them published in the Daily Mail. As serving officers in the Briti...
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    23,63 €

  • Montreal After 250 Years (Esprios Classics)
    W. D. Lighthall / WDLighthall
    William Douw Lighthall KC FRSL FRSC (December 27, 1857 - August 3, 1954), often referred to as W. D. Lighthall, was a Canadian lawyer, historian, novelist, poet and philosopher. He served as mayor of Westmount from 1900 to 1903. During that time he originated, and in 1901 co-founded, the Union of Canadian Municipalities (now the Federation of Canadian Municipalities). He also s...
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    20,69 €

  • Fifty years with the Revere Copper Co. (Esprios Classics)
    S. T. Snow / STSnow
    'A Personal Word by way of introduction. My first appearance in the Revere Copper Company’s office, then at No. 22 Union Street,[1] was on Monday morning, March 23, 1840. Saturday night last, therefore, completed the full period of fifty uninterrupted years of service.In the nature of things it cannot be expected that this record will be repeated by me, nor can any one else dup...
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    17,50 €

  • 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 €

  • Wanderings in South America (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Waterton
    Charles Waterton (3 June 1782 - 27 May 1865) was an English naturalist and explorer. He is best known as a pioneering conservationist. He was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire where his interest in exploration and wildlife were already evident. In 1804 he travelled to British Guiana to take charge of his uncle’s estates near Georgetown. In 1812 he started to explore ...
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    24,46 €

  • Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Esprios Classics)
    John Locke
    Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke. For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in England. It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the eighteenth century, and nearly every European writer on education after Lo...
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    22,93 €

  • 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 €

  • Evangelization and christian development
    Akinbowale Isaac Adewumi
    The dare need of the hour in this critical era of the church age is soul winning which is the sole aim of evangelism and it conforms unequivocally with God’s heartbeat as author espouses. Evangelism is personal witnessing, advocacy or public preaching and zealous spreading of the Gospel for the purpose of winning souls (Mark 16:15-20). Furthermore, evangelism is just a subset o...
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    16,02 €

  • A Little Tour in France (Esprios Classics)
    Henry James
    A Little Tour in France is a book of travel writing by American writer Henry James. Originally published under the title En Province in 1883-1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in France, including Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse, Arles and several others. The first book publication was in 1884. A seco...
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    24,44 €

  • Across Asia on a Bicycle (Esprios Classics)
    Jr. / Thomas Gaskell Allen
    'On a morning early in April the little steamer conveying us across from Stamboul touched the wharf at Haider Pasha. Amid the rabble of Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Italians we trundled our bicycles across the gang-plank, which for us was the threshold of Asia, the beginning of an inland journey of seven thousand miles from the Bosporus to the Pacific. Through the morning fog ...
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    22,96 €

  • A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (Esprios Classics)
    Watkin Tench
    Lieutenant General Watkin Tench (6 October 1758 - 7 May 1833) was a British marine officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first settlement in Australia in 1788. His two accounts, Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson provide an account of t...
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    18,44 €

  • Jane Shore (Esprios Classics)
    Nicholas Rowe
    Nicholas Rowe (20 June 1674 - 6 December 1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate in 1715. His plays and poems were well-received during his lifetime, with one of his translations described as one of the greatest productions in English poetry. He was also considered the first editor of the works of William Shakespeare. The Ambitious S...
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    18,38 €

  • Kangaroo Coloring Book
    PaperLand
    It’s was made for Kangaroo lovers or someone who just likes to relax coloring.Kangaroo in zentangle pattern style with heartwarming quotes.Makes the perfect gift for your friends who are Kangaroo lover.This book has a total of 42 pages, contains 1 inner cover, 10 different designs with the copy for two chances to coloring, and 21 blank pages for your freestyle drawing. ...
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    19,02 €

  • Canadian Crusoes (Esprios Classics)
    Catharine Parr Traill
    Catharine Parr Traill (born Strickland; 1802 - 1899) was an English-Canadian author and naturalist who wrote about life in Canada, particularly what is now Ontario (then the colony of Upper Canada). Traill began writing children’s books in 1818 like Disobedience; or, Mind What Mama Says (1819). She described her new life in Canada in letters and journals, and collected these in...
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    23,71 €

  • Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi (Esprios Classics)
    Jefferson Davis
    Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 - December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War. He previously served as the United States Secretary of War from 1853...
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    19,76 €

  • Just Deal With It
    Michelle Ham
    Twelve-year-old Gypsy Sharpe wasn’t too worried about starting high school, but that was before her foster sister moved out. Before her best friend started acting as though she’d been sucked into an alternate dimension. Before she noticed the absence of monkey bars in the (so-called) school playground.That was before glamorous nightmare Mahalia Maher sashayed out of the shadows...
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    13,34 €

  • 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 €

  • A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Paine
    Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain) (1737 - 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-1783), the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. His ...
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    18,47 €

  • The Penance of Portia James (Esprios Classics)
    Tasma
    Jessie Catherine Couvreur (pseudonym Tasma) (28 October 1848 - 23 October 1897) was an Australian novelist. In 1873 she visited Europe, and between 1879 and 1883 spent much time there giving courses of lectures in French at various European cities. She also wrote for the Nouvelle Revue and received from the French government the decoration of Officier d’Académie. She revisited ...
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    22,94 €

  • History of the Constitutions of Iowa (Esprios Classics)
    Benjamin F. Shambaugh / Benjamin FShambaugh
    Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh (29 January 1871 in Elvira, Iowa - 7 April 1948 in Iowa City) was a US historian and political scientist. He was a professor at the State University of Iowa, later the University of Iowa, and served as president of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 1929/30. Shambaugh graduated with a bachelor’s degree from what was then the State U...
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    20,65 €

  • The Seminole Indians of Florida (Esprios Classics)
    Clay MacCauley
    'It will be convenient for me to describe the Florida Seminole as they present themselves, first as individuals, and next as members of a society. I know it is impossible to separate, really, the individual as such from the individual as a member of society; nevertheless, there is the man as we see him, having certain characteristics which, we call personal, or his own, whences...
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    19,60 €

  • 王康纪念文集 (平装本)
    郑义主编, 北明、一平 责编
    本文集是我們對自己同時代兄弟王康的深切紀念。人類大劫難中,春天如故,已經準時到來。在這沒有王康的第一個春天,本書在纽约付梓,是我們今年特別的慰籍。我們在此感謝本文集所有作者--無論您在天涯海角,海內海外,大陸台灣,西方東方,請接受我們真誠的謝意,我們同時請求,鑑於周知的原因,原諒我們對文章斩而不奏的編選方式。最後申明:本文集之編輯是義務勞動,出版屬公益事業,文集是非盈利品。我們感謝博登出版社的理解與合作,寸心終成文集,願對王康的紀念自由傳送,浩氣長流。 ...
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    12,21 €

  • Marcella, Volume I (Esprios Classics)
    Mrs. Humphry Ward / MrsHumphry Ward
    Mary Augusta Ward CBE 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 published in 1881 under the title Milly a...
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    27,47 €

  • Boris Godunov
    Aleksandr Pushkin
    Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. He was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from...
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    18,47 €