| Money and the Mechanism of Exchange Contributor(s): Jevons, William Stanley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1514369745 ISBN-13: 9781514369746 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.12 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 9" (0.44 lbs) 142 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Some years since, Mademoiselle Z lie, a singer of the Th tre Lyrique at Paris, made a professional tour round the world, and gave a concert in the Society Islands. In exchange for an air from Norma and a few other songs, she was to receive a third part of the receipts. When counted, her share was found to consist of three pigs, twenty-three turkeys, forty-four chickens, five thousand cocoa-nuts, besides considerable quantities of bananas, lemons, and oranges. At the Halle in Paris, as the prima donna remarks in her lively letter, printed by M. Wolowski, this amount of live stock and vegetables might have brought four thousand francs, which would have been good remuneration for five songs. In the Society Islands, however, pieces of money were very scarce; and as Mademoiselle could not consume any considerable portion of the receipts herself, it became necessary in the mean time to feed the pigs and poultry with the fruit. |