Parnassus on Wheels (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Parnassus on Wheels (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Parnassus on Wheels (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Parnassus on Wheels (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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Overview

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.

The charm of Christopher Morley’s first novel, Parnassus on Wheels, lies in its improbability: a romance between middle-aged lovers who have had no expectation or even hope of romance until now.  Also, like much of Morley’s work, it’s a love song to the redemptive power of books and reading. It’s a story with the easy rhythms of rural life; the slow, autumnal rhythm of the book-filled wagon, Parnassus itself, pulled along by the horse, Peg.  The same rhythms as Helen and Roger’s unexpected courtship, as two middle-aged characters--a plump spinster and a gingery, opinionated, itinerant bookseller, fall in love while talking about books.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781411466340
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Publication date: 03/13/2012
Series: Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 112
Sales rank: 482,561
File size: 442 KB
Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Christopher Morley was arguably more important as an editor, anthologist, reviewer, and all-round champion of literature than he was as a writer himself.  Born in 1890 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, he attended Haverford College and studied as a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford, before moving to New York in 1913. He started his literary career as a publicist and book representative for Doubleday.  He also co-founded The Saturday Review, and was also one of the five original board members of the Book-of-the-Month Club, as well as the editor of two editions of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Through these activities, and his countless reviews and essays, Morley carried on his work as a popularizer of books he admired.  He died in 1953.

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