“No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.”

— Eleanor Farjeon , book Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

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English children's writer 1881–1965

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