Parnassus on Wheels - Softcover

Morley, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380627035 ISBN 13: 9780380627035

Publisher: Avon Books, 1983

Synopsis

Helen McGill, the thirty-eight-year-old sister of an eminent novelist, and zany Roger Mifflin, the owner of a travelling bookstore, embark on a series of adventures through New England in 1915

About this title

From the Publisher:

“When you sell a man a book,” says Roger Mifflin, protagonist of these classic bookselling novels, “you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new life.” The new life the itinerant bookman delivers to Helen McGill, the narrator of Parnassus on Wheels, provides the romantic comedy that drives the novel. Published in 1917, Morley’s Þrst love letter to the trafÞc in books remains a transporting entertainment. Its sequel, The Haunted Bookshop, Þnds Mifflin and McGill, now married, ensconced in Brooklyn. The novel’s rollicking plot provides ample doses of diversion, while allowing more room for Mifflin (and Morley) to expound on the intricacy of the bookseller’s art. Introductions by James Mustich, Jr.

About the Author:

Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957) was an American journalist and author of more than one hundred novels, books of essays, and volumes of poetry. He was one of the founders of the Saturday Review of Literature and is probably best known for his novel Kitty Foyle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0380627035
• ISBN 13: 9780380627035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160