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A Flat Iron for a Farthing

A Flat Iron for a Farthing

Horatia Ewing Juliana Horatia Ewing

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Editorial:
1st World Library - Literary Society
Año de edición:
2007
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Antologías (no poéticas)
ISBN:
9781421848457
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When the children clamour for a story, my wife says to me, 'Tell them how you bought a flat iron for a farthing.' Which I very gladly do; for three reasons. In the first place, it is about myself, and so I take an interest in it. Secondly, it is about som

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