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Parnassus on Wheels

By Christopher Morley

Parnassus on Wheels

By Christopher Morley

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I imagined him in his beloved Brooklyn, strolling in Prospect Park and preaching to chance comers about his gospel of good books. "When you sell a man a book," says Roger Mifflin, the sprite-like book peddler at the center of this classic novella, "you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life." In this beguiling but little-known prequel to Christopher Morley's beloved Haunted Bookshop, the "whole new life" that the traveling bookman delivers to Helen McGill, the narrator of Parnassus on Wheels, provides the romantic comedy that drives this charming love letter to a life in books. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
144
Release Date:
2010-08-31
Publication Date:
2010-08-31
Publisher:
Melville House Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1935554115
ISBN13:
9781935554110
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
146 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
178 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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