Parnassus on Wheelsby Christopher Morley | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
| Pages: | 160 |
| Year of Publication: | 1917 |
| Date Read: | 12/12/1993 |
| Notes: | “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. COMMENTS — Morley was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright and a journalist. He learned the book trade at Garden City's Doubleday, Page and Co., was an editor of the Ladies Home Journal, a columnist for the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger and the New York Evening Post. He was one of the founders of The Saturday Review of Literature, where he was also a columnist. He was a judge of the Book-of-the-Month Club and edited the 11th and 12th editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. |
| My Rating: | 7 |