Christopher Morley
Список книг автора Christopher MorleyWhere the Blue Begins
"Where the Blue Begins" by Christopher Morley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Haunted Bookshop & The Prequel "Parnassus on Wheels"
This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. «Parnassus on Wheels» tells the tale of a traveling book-selling business owned by Roger Mifflin. Helen McGill is a 39 year-old woman, working at a farm, who is tired of taking care of her older brother, Andrew. Andrew is a former businessman turned farmer, turned author. As an author, he begins using the farm as his Muse rather than a livelihood. When Mifflin shows up with his traveling bookstore, Helen buys it—partly to prevent Andrew from buying it—and partly to treat herself to a long-overdue adventure of her own. "The Haunted Bookshop" is a suspenseful novel set in Brooklyn around the time of the end of World War I. It continues the story of Roger Mifflin, the book seller in Parnassus on Wheels. A young advertising man, Aubrey Gilbert, stops by a bookstore named «The Haunted Bookshop» in the hopes of finding a new client and meets the proprietor, Roger Mifflin. Gilbert is intrigued by the fact that his firm's biggest client, Mr. Chapman, has asked Mifflin to undertake the education of his daughter, Titania Chapman. Gilbert meets Titania and falls in love with her. Meanwhile, mysterious things start to happen: Gilbert is attacked as he travels home and a pharmacist neighbor of Mifflin is observed skulking in the alley behind the bookstore at night speaking to someone in German. Gilbert suspects that the gregarious Mifflin is involved in a plot to kidnap Titania, and he assigns himself the job of protecting her.
Shandygaff
"Shandygaff" by Christopher Morley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Haunted Bookshop
"The Haunted Bookshop" by Christopher Morley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Haunted Bookshop
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La librería encantada
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 allí cada poco para disfrutar la tarta de chocolate de Helen y los discursos incendiarios, y a la vez llenos de sensatez, del pequeño gran Roger."Un homenaje a la especie en extinción de los libreros. Roger Mifflin, librero por vocación y obsesión, es como un médico que diagnostica las necesidades de lectura que tiene la gente y les receta el libro que más le conviene a su alma y quizá a su cuerpo." José Luis de Juan, El País
La librería ambulante
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 señorita Helen McGill, quien decide, harta de la monotonía de su vida, lanzarse a la aventura y recorrer mundo. A partir de ese momento se sucederán los encuentros y los desencuentros, y las más divertidas peripecias se darán la mano con las grandes enseñanzas que proporcionan libros y librero."Un canto al amor por la literatura. Una atmósfera, una actitud vital, humilde y sabia, presente en esta novela centrada en la decisión de una granjera soltera, hermana de un escritor egoísta y barroco, que un día decide invertir sus ahorros en la compra de un carromato lleno de libros. El humor, la calidad de una prosa sencilla y la pequeña épica de la historia, que evoca los cantos a la vida y a la América profunda de Whitman, convierten la novela en una delicada joya que expresa con maestría el papel de la literatura como superación personal, como valiosa compañía, además de ser un bello homenaje a los que, en otras épocas más duras, transmitieron la importancia de leer." Guillermo Busutil, La Opinión de Málaga
