The Tinder-Box

Maria Thompson Daviess

earliest edition we have, 2005 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2006 hardcover 184 pages

From the book:All love is a gas, and it takes either loneliness, strength of character, or religion to liquefy it into a condition to be ladled out of us, one to another. There is a certain dangerously volatile state of it; and occasionally people, especially of opposite sexes, try to administer it to each other in that form, with asphyxiation resulting to both hearts. And I'm willing to confess that it is generally...

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Editions we hold

The Tinder-Box paperback · 2007 · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · 340 pages · 9780548474761
The Tinder-Box paperback · 2007 · Echo Library · 96 pages · 9781406818574
The Tinder-Box paperback · 2006 · 1st World Library - Literary Society · 184 pages · 9781421824444
The Tinder-Box ebook · 2006 · 1st World Library
The Tinder-Box hardcover · 2006 · 1st World Library - Literary Society · 184 pages · 9781421823447
Tinder-box paperback · 2005 · IndyPublish.com · 140 pages · 9781421944807
The Tinder-Box hardcover · 2005 · IndyPublish.com · 140 pages · 9781421944791

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