Fifty Famous People (Esprios Classics)


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James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American educator and administrator. He served as the superintendent of Indiana's school system for 18 years and then went on to become a widely published textbook editor and children's author in the subjects of legends, mythology, biography, and literature, among others. He was one of the most prolific authors of school books for children at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. In addition to the Baldwin Readers (1897), he co-authored the Harper Readers (1888) and the Expressive Readers (1911). He wrote over thirty books about famous people in history and retold classical stories. His publications numbered 54 volumes. It is estimated that 26 million copies of his works sold worldwide, including in China and Indonesia.




Great Men and Famous Women, Volume I (Esprios Classics)


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A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches ofTHE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORYCharles Francis Horne (1870-1942) was an American author and editor. He edited many multiple volume collections at the beginning of the twentieth century including: Great Men and Famous Women (8 volumes, 1894), The Story of the Greatest Nations (with Edward S. Ellis) (10 volumes, 1901-1906), Works of Jules Verne (15 volumes, 1911), The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East (14 volumes, 1917), and The Great Events by Famous Historians (with Rossiter Johnson and John Rudd) (21 volumes).ALARIC THE BOLD, ALEXANDER THE GREAT, MARC ANTONY, ATTILA, BELISARIUS, GODFREY DE BOUILLON, JULIUS CAESAR, CHARLEMAGNE, CLOVIS THE FIRST, GASPARD DE COLIGNI, HERNANDO CORTES, CYRUS THE GREAT, DIOCLETIAN, SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, EDWARD I. OF ENGLAND, EDWARD III. OF ENGLAND, EDWARD, THE BLACK PRINCE, BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, HANNIBAL, HENRY IV. OF FRANCE, HENRY V




Great Men and Famous Women, Volume IV (Esprios Classics)


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A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORY Charles Francis Horne (1870-1942) was an American author and editor. He edited many multiple volume collections at the beginning of the twentieth century including: Great Men and Famous Women (8 volumes, 1894), The Story of the Greatest Nations (with Edward S. Ellis) (10 volumes, 1901-1906), Works of Jules Verne (15 volumes, 1911), The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East (14 volumes, 1917), and The Great Events by Famous Historians (with Rossiter Johnson and John Rudd) (21 volumes).JOHN ADAMS, BISMARCK, BOLIVAR, EDMUND BURKE, JEAN FRANÇOIS CHAMPOLLION, GROVER CLEVELAND, GEORGES CUVIER, CHARLES DARWIN, BENJAMIN DISRAELI, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, LÉON GAMBETTA, WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, HORACE GREELEY, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, PATRICK HENRY, ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, ANDREW JACKSON, WILLIAM MCKINLEY, MARIA THERESA, COUNT DE MIRABEAU, ISAAC NEWTON, DANIEL O'CONNELL, PARNELL, JEAN HENRI PESTALOZZI, PETE







Hero Stories From American History (Esprios Classics)


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Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball are the American co-authors of several historical short story collections for children, including Short Stories from American History (1905) and Stories of the Civil War (1890)







The Come Back (Esprios Classics)


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Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. According to her autobiography, The Rest of My Life (1937), she heard That Affair Next Door (1897), one of Anna Katharine Green's mystery novels, being read aloud and was immediately captivated by the unraveling of the puzzle. From that point onward she devoted herself to the mystery genre. Among the most famous of her mystery novels were the Fleming Stone Detective Stories. The Clue (1909) is on the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone list of essential mysteries. She was also the first to conduct an annual series devoted to the best short crime fiction of the previous year in the U.S., beginning with The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year (1931) (though others had begun a similar British series in 1929).







A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines (Esprios Classics)


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A TREASURY OF HEROES AND HEROINES- A RECORD OF HIGH ENDEAVOUR AND STRANGE ADVENTURE FROM 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. ILLUSTRATED BYFLORENCE CHOATE AND ELIZABETH CURTIS




Political Pamphlets (Esprios Classics)


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"It is sometimes thought, and very often said, that political writing, after its special day is done, becomes more dead than any other kind of literature, or even journalism. I do not know whether my own judgment is perverted by the fact of a special devotion to the business, but it certainly seems to me that both the thought and the saying are mistakes. Indeed, a rough-and-ready refutation of them is supplied by the fact that, in no few cases, political pieces have entered into the generally admitted stock of the best literary things."