Parnassus on Wheels E-book
Author: Christopher Morley
Genre: Literature
Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957) American novelist,
essayist, poet and journalist. Born at Haverford, Pennsylvania.
Studied History as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Published a
book of poetry, The Eighth Sin, at 22. Married Helen Booth
Fairchild (1914). Worked for Doubleday, Ladies Home Journal
and, in 1918, published Shandygaff, the first of 13 essay
compilations. His best-known novels are Parnassus on Wheels
(1917) and its sequel, The Haunted Bookshop (1919).
Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
Published when Morley was 27, Parnassus on Wheels is the story of
Roger Mifflin, an itinerant bookseller who travels through rural
areas in a horse-drawn wagon named "Parnassus" selling books to
farmers. Roger is dedicated to his trade. "When you sell a man a
book, you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and
glue," says Roger, "You sell him a whole new life."
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