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| Original Title: | Parnassus on Wheels |
| ISBN: | 1414270658 (ISBN13: 9781414270654) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Parnassus |
| Series: | #1 |
| Characters: | Roger Mifflin, Helen McGill, Andrew McGill |
| Setting: | New York State(United States) |
Christopher Morley
Paperback | Pages: 152 pages Rating: 4.02 | 5129 Users | 1016 Reviews
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| Title | : | Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus Series #1) |
| Author | : | Christopher Morley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 152 pages |
| Published | : | January 19th 2004 by IndyPublish.com (first published 1917) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Writing. Books About Books. Classics. Humor. Adventure |
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This is a pilot for a new feel-good tv series: Opening Credits: It is a glorious morning on a deserted track somewhere in the rural Midwest. Rolling on the lane is a long gypsy-type wagon being pulled by a great big horse. On the open seat up front holding the reins is a cheery man of middle years with kind brown eyes who is laughing gently in a conversational kind of way with a fat, rather plain but very jolly lady. They are wearing clothes of the era when cars and wagons shared the roads, 1917. Introduction: The woman and her older brother have been happily managing their isolated farm together until the brother publishes a book and its success makes him uppity in the extreme. While he swans around being famous, she is left at home running the farm. This is seriously annoying her. A travelling salesmen, selling books, comes to her door saying he is not just selling books but also his travelling bookstore. He wonders if her brother, the famous author, be interested in buying it? He wants to leave bookselling to go back to the city to write his book. He shows her his wonderful, magical wagon full of all the necessities for life on the road and shelves and shelves of books. She jumps at the chance and deciding to spend her life savings and take over the business herself. So leaving a note for her brother telling him to look after himself, she closes the front door behind her, jumps on to the seat next to the bookseller and off they go. Further scenes in the first episode Much dialogue between the bookseller and the spinster laying out the history of their lives. He is a city man, a professor who wants to write a book. He is passionate about the ability of books to change lives for the better. She's a bit of a disappointed spinster who counts her successes in hens' eggs laid and wholesome loaves baked. Scenes include: 1. Making the first sale. 2. The caravan being stolen and the bookseller turns out to be handy with his fists. 3. Drama over the cheque for payment being cancelled by the pissed-off brother. 3. A bank scene, an arrest, and a false imprisonment. The denoument Love. The stranger with a get-out-of-jail-free-card. The inevitable marriage and then the final winning over the brother. All say ahhhhh. Can't you just see it? It was just made for tv. The late Mike Landon would have been perfect casting. Brilliant, lovely, heart-warming book. Beautifully-written without any suspense at all. Each rather obvious episode gives warning of what is to come next and the whole thing unfolds in a pastoral, slower-times, comfy, apple-pie kind of way. A nice book to read curled up on the sofa with a cup of tea or a hot toddy to hand and nothing to do for hours and hours. Rewritten 24 August 2013Rating Based On Books Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus Series #1)
Ratings: 4.02 From 5129 Users | 1016 ReviewsCrit Based On Books Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus Series #1)
Muy divertida, ingeniosa, más en las reflexiones que en la trama e incluso cómica a veces rozando el slapstick. Una lectura muy agradable."Son casi increÃble las estratagemas a las que descienden ciertos editores""When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell him a whole new life""A veces tengo la impresión de que los editores saben menos de libros que nadie""La última vez querÃa algo de Shakespeare pero no se lo di porque no lo vi preparadoWithout Goodreads friends I would never have been introduced to this utterly charming novella, written in 1917. Perhaps it is less known than other books which we classify as "classics" because Parnassus on Wheels does not bridge adult and children's fiction, as do "Treasure Island" or "Huckleberry Finn". And it certainly isn't a windswept anguished romance, peopled by lovely young women as do the Brönte sisters' ilk. But it certainly stands the test of time, and for that alone, I must award it
What a beautiful tribute to books and book lovers!The world definitely needs more book sellers with Parnassuses. Maybe I'll become one someday.When you sell a man a book you dont sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humor and ships at sea by night - theres all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great
Not as smooth or clever as Morley's later writing, but very sweet and fun!Come on, what book lover could hate a short novel about driving around in a horse-drawn wagon bringing books to the bookless?
Such a charmer. A must-read for any bibliophile.
This is an old-fashioned, sweet novella published in 1917, about a self-described "fat old woman" (she's only 39) who's never done anything but work as a governess and, later, cook and keep house for her bachelor brother, Andrew. Helen is content with her existence until her brother decides to start writing books about the joys of country life (he calls his first book Paradise Regained) and unexpectedly becomes a celebrity author. Suddenly he's a big "literary man," traveling around looking for
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