I'm going to write a bookĪbout 'Literature Among the Farmers,' and want to settle down with Literature into the countryside as ever old Doc Eliot did with hisįive-foot shelf. I've covered the territory fromįlorida to Maine and I reckon I've injected about as much good That he had the bright eyes of a fanatic-"I've been cruising with "Well, see here," said the little man-and about this time I noticed I noticed poetry, essays, novels, cook books, juveniles, schoolīooks, Bibles, and what not-all jumbled together.
He certainly had a pretty miscellaneous collection. Not literary, as I said before, but I'm human enough to likeĪ good book, and my eye was running along those shelves of hisĪs I spoke. Kate's Book BlogFollowed by The Haunted Bookshop. In the travelling book trade, she finds it. But it soon becomes apparent that the seemingly settled Helen is out for a bit of adventure. She rationalizes that she's simply trying to prevent Andrew from doing the same and disappearing from the farm once and for all. In an uncharacteristically impulsive moment, Helen makes the purchase herself. He's seeking a buyer for the Parnassus and he thought that Andrew would be a likely candidate. He's been travelling around the countryside evangelizing about literature but he's ready to pack it in to write a book of his own. Roger Mifflin rolls into the farmyard in the ''Parnassus on Wheels'' of the title: a travelling bookshop. Helen takes pride in her domestic accomplishments but she doesn't like being saddled with all the work and she doesn't like being taken for granted. Andrew is a literary man, however, and since his books have become successful, his attention to the farm and his appreciation of the work that Helen does have diminished considerably. Our heroine is Helen McGill, a thirty-nine year old spinster who assists her brother Andrew in the running of his New England farm. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.The year is 1915. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Morley’s last message to his friends and family before his death was this: “Read, every day, something no one else is reading. A true lover of literature, he was author of more than 100 novels, books of essays, and volumes of poetry, but is probably best known today for his first two novels, Parnassus on Wheels (1917) and The Haunted Bookshop (1919). Read more about the Out of Print Collection here.Ĭhristopher Morley (– March 28, 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet. This beautiful hardcover edition features original cover art.
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This is the complete and unabridged text of Christopher Morley’s novel, Parnassus on Wheels. Sweet Sequels Out of Print Collection Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley with cover art by Haleigh DeRocher
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