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Title: Parnassus on Wheels (Common Reader Editions) by Christopher Morley, Christopher Morley ISBN: 1-888173-56-4 Publisher: Joiner/Oriel Inc Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Another book about books
Comment: This is a cute little book. It can probably be read over a weekend. The main character in the story, Helen, has a brother who is a successful novelist who writes about farm life and its inhabitants. Helen has baked 6,000 loaves of bread in the past 15 years! When a salesman comes to their farm and wants to sell Parnassus (a traveling bookstore/van with a horse), Helen gets mad that her brother will go off yet again to have adventures which he will write a book about. Consequently, leaving her to tend the farm and all chores. Instead, Helen buys Parnassus off the man to spite her brother but then has an adventure of her own!
The sequal is 'Haunted Bookshop.' I also recommend, Used and Rare, Slightly Chipped, and Warmly Insribed-- all 3 by Larry and Nancy Goldstone. Also 84 Charring Cross Road and the Dutchess of Bloomsberry Street.
Rating: 4
Summary: For Bibliophiles Only
Comment: "A man who's fond of books need never starve." So reckons Roger Mifflin, the last of the truly independent booksellers, who loads a horse-drawn wagon with books and brings literature home to the plain man. Roger calls his wagon Parnassus on Wheels after the mountain sacred to the Muses. He believes all people need a book and that he is just the man to recommend the perfect book for each person. Roger may be the first book discounter because he thinks every book should be sold for its worth and not for the price the publisher has marked. Roger deems himself to be just the man to make that determination.
"Parnassus on Wheels" is also a sweet romance story between Roger and Helen McGill, a lonely woman who lives on a farm and whose life comes to life when Parnassus and Roger come swaying up her path. Roger sells her Parnassus on Wheels and teaches her how to promote books. Their adventures on the way to Brooklyn fill this book with contemporary color about a time during the beginning of the 20th century, when books were a rare and perfect mystery for the few. If you are a bibliophile, and you must be if you are reading this review of this obscure novel about bookselling, then you'll enjoy reading about Helen and Roger's adventures roaming the countryside to bring books to the masses.
Rating: 5
Summary: For booklovers and romantics
Comment: Do you love books and learning? Do you delight in spending the afternoon browsing the stacks at the library? Are you in the mood for something light, amusing, captivating, and utterly delightful? Do you believe in true love, somehow, someway? If you said yes to most of these questions, then read Parnassus on Wheels. This is the most delightful and charming book I've come across in years. It brought tears to my eyes and made me laugh, and that doesn't happen often when I'm reading a book. In fact, I wish I had my own Parnassus and that I could travel the countryside selling books.
By the way, it's a page turner too! A great gift idea for a friend that loves to read. Enjoy.
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Title: Haunted Bookshop (Common Reader Editions) by Christopher Morley, Christopher Morley ISBN: 1888173572 Publisher: Akadine Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast by Bill Richardson ISBN: 0312171838 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 15 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Waiting for Gertrude: A Graveyard Gothic by Bill Richardson ISBN: 0312318685 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff ISBN: 0140143505 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: A Splendor of Letters : The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World by Nicholas A. Basbanes ISBN: 0060082879 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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