Christopher Morley: 37 books

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Part love story, part thriller, part booklover’s fantasy—and entirely charming—Christopher Morley’s The Haunted Bookshop has something for every reader. Set in a lovingly evoked Brooklyn just after the end of...

Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.

I imagined him in his beloved Brooklyn, strolling in Prospect Park and preaching to chance comers about his gospel of good books. "When you sell a man a book," says Roger Mifflin, the sprite-like book peddler at the center of this classic novella, "you don't sell him just twelve...

Part love story, part thriller, part booklover’s fantasy—and entirely charming—Christopher Morley’s 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...

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations.  All our books contain a linked table of contents. Parnassus on Wheels, written by Christopher Morley, is a novel about a fictional traveling book-selling business and the adventures of its owners.

The Haunted Bookshop is not a novel of the supernatural. Rather, the title of this book refers to the ghosts of the past that haunt all libraries and bookstores, or "the ghosts of all great literature." Throughout the novel Morley, through the character of Roger Mifflin, makes reference...

 An American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. Contents The Haunted Bookshop (1919) Mince Pie (1919) Parnassus on Wheels (1917) Pipefuls (1920) Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned (1910) Where the Blue Begins (1922)...

Sir Thomas Browne said that Eve was "edified out of the rib of Adam.” This little book was edified (for the most part) out of the ribs of two friendly newspapers, The New York Evening Post and The Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. To them, and to The Bookman, Everybody's, and The Publishers' Weekly,...

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Mysterious things begin happening to a young advertising man after visiting The Haunted Bookshop.

A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course and on occasion thought provoking and even disturbing. From the preface "These sketches gave me pain to write; they will give the judicious patron pain to...

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