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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date July 23, 2014
Pages 142
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781500613020
ISBN-10 1500613029
Dimensions 0.32 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price $7.49
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV BAB'S BURGLAR TV/TONEY is the root of all Evil." I do not know who said the above famous words, but they are true. I know it but to well. For had I never gone on an Allowence, and been in debt and always worried about the way silk stockings wear out, et cetera, I would be having a much better time. For who can realy enjoy a dress when it is not paid for or only partialy so? I have decided to write out this story, which is true in every particuler, except here and there the exact words of conversation, and then sell it to a Magazine. I intend to do this for to reasons. First, because I am in Debt, especialy for to tires, and second, because parents will then read it, and learn that it is not possable to make a good appearence, including furs, theater tickets and underwear, for a Thousand Dollars a year, even if one wears plain uncouth things beneath. I think this, too. My mother does not know how much clothes and other things, such as manacuring, cost these days. She merely charges things and my father gets the bills. Nor do I consider it fair to expect me to atend Social Functions and present a good appearence on a small Allowence, when I would often prefer a simple game of tennis or to lie in a hammick, or to converce with some one I am interested in, of the Other Sex. It was mother who said a Thousand dollars a year and no extras. But I must confess that to me, after ten dollars a month at school, it seemed a large sum. I had but just returned for the summer holadays, and the Familey was having a counsel about me. They always have a counsel when I come home, and mother makes a list, begining with the Dentist. "I should make it a Thousand," she said to father. "The child is in shameful condition. She is never still, and she fidgits right through her clothes." "Very well,...

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from Createspace Independent Pub (February 7, 2016)
9781523919017 | details & prices | 104 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.24 in. | List price $5.99
from Createspace Independent Pub (May 8, 2015)
9781502868084 | details & prices | 186 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.42 in. | List price $14.99
from Createspace Independent Pub (September 26, 2014)
9781502503893 | details & prices | 166 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.38 in. | List price $10.00
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from Createspace Independent Pub (July 23, 2014)
9781500613020 | details & prices | 142 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.32 in. | List price $7.49
About: Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index.
from Createspace Independent Pub (December 24, 2013)
9781494785925 | details & prices | 244 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.55 in. | List price $14.99

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