A Flat Iron for a Farthing (Hardcover)

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 some one very dear to me, as will appear hereafter. Thirdly, it is the only original story in my somewhat limited collection, and I am naturally rather proud of the favour with which it is invariably received. I think it was the foolish fancy of my dear wife and children combined that this most veracious history should be committed to paper. It was either because-being so unused to authorship-I had no notion of composition, and was troubled by a tyro tendency to stray from my subject; or because the part played by the flat iron, though important, was small; or because I and my affairs were most chiefly interesting to myself as writer, and my family as readers; or from a combination of all these reasons together, that my tale outgrew its first title and we had to add a second, and call it "Some Passages in the Life of an only Son."

General

Imprint:	1st World Library - Literary Society
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2007
First published:	June 2007
Authors:	Horatia Ewing Juliana Horatia Ewing • Juliana Horatia Ewing
Editors:	1stworld Library
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-4218-4748-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-4218-4748-5
Barcode:	9781421847481

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