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.
2) 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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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...
12) 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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Part love story, part thriller, part bookloverś fantasy - and entirely charming - Christopher Morleyś The Haunted Bookshop has something for every reader. Set in a lovingly evoked Brooklyn just after the end of World War I, the story cleverly juxtaposes a pair of middle-aged bookshop owners and two young lovers with a nest of German saboteurs, complete with mysterious clues, red herrings, blushing romance, derring-do, a desperate race to the rescue,...
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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...
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Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in England in a series of volumes from 1759 to 1767. An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is the most protean and playful English novel of the eighteenth century and a celebration...
17) Leaves of grass
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Contains a reprint of the 1855 edition of Whitman's collection of poems, providing the typeface, design, and layout of the original version, including and afterword by Whitman authority David S. Reynolds, discussing its background, reception, and contribution to literary history.
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This single-volume edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare includes commissioned introductions to each of the plays and poems by a team of academics, including John Jowett and Philip Hobsbaum, with a textual introduction by the Shakespearean scholar Alec Yearling explaining the significance of the Alexander edition. This volume also includes a biography of Shakespeare by Germaine Greer and an introduction to Shakespeare's theatre by Anthony...