Christopher Morley
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Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.
3) Christopher Morley: Two Classic Novels in One Volume: Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop
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This single-volume edition of both of Christopher Morley's most popular novels will charm all lovers of "books about books." In the first story, Parnassus on Wheels, 39-year-old Helen McGill is weary of keeping house for her bachelor brother. When red-bearded bookseller Roger Mifflin rolls into town, she impulsively purchases his mobile bookshop. Roger promises to teach Helen the trade before retiring to write his long-overdue book, and together they...
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Prepárese para entrar en un mundo único y lleno de encanto, donde el tiempo se ha detenido: estamos en la segunda década del siglo XX, en unos Estados Unidos todavía rurales y de paisajes idílicos, donde conviven los viejos carromatos y los novísimos automóviles; Roger Mifflin, un librero ambulante que desea regresar a Brooklyn para redactar sus memorias, vende su singular librería sobre ruedas (junto a su yegua y su perro) a la ya madura...
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Los entrañables Roger y Helen Mifflin han dejado de recorrer los campos y pueblos con su librería ambulante y se han instalado en pleno Brooklyn, como siempre soñara Roger. Ambos regentan La Librería Encantada, un "parnaso en casa" al que acuden, de un lado a otro de Nueva York, todo tipo de personajes singulares, incluidos jóvenes publicistas, farmacéuticos alemanes y guapísimas herederas; por no hablar de sus amigos libreros, que se reúnen...
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The Haunted Bookshop (1919) is a novel by Christopher Morley. Although less popular than Kitty Foyle (1939), a novel adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, The Haunted Bookshop is a fast-paced thriller that deserves a modern audience. From unassuming beginnings as a tale about a lovelorn advertising salesman who visits a charming bookstore, The Haunted Bookshop quickly morphs into a story of paranoia, stalking, and kidnapping. "If you are ever...
11) I Know a Secret
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1927.
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A collection of short children's stories including Jack Beanstalk and the Pea Princess.
12) Mince pie
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This is a collection of short pieces he wrote for newspapers and magazines. He includes pieces on subjects like taking his son to the zoo, the difficulty of keeping a diary, or how to interpret political rumors (assume the opposite will happen). (Goodreads)
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First published in 1917, "Parnassus on Wheels" is the story of Roger Mifflin and his traveling book-selling business who meets Helen McGill, an aging spinster. Helen is tired of taking care of her eccentric brother and jumps at the chance to buy Roger's mobile business and begin adventures of her own. Readers meet-up with the gregarious Roger again in "The Haunted Bookshop", first published in 1919. Roger now owns a traditional bookstore called "The...
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A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure clues overlooked by others, dilettante sleuth Sherlock Holmes was the hero of sixty stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. He even rose from the dead after Doyle tried to dispatch him in his twenty-fourth adventure, and readers protested. Here, in one volume, are all four full-length novels and fifty-six short stories about the colourful...