Parnassus On Wheels Av Christopher Morely

<b>I imagined him in his beloved Brooklyn, strolling in Prospect Park and preaching to chance comers about his gospel of good books.</b><br><br>"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 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life." In this beguiling but little-known prequel to Christopher Morley''s beloved <i>Haunted Bookshop</i>, the "whole new life" that the traveling bookman delivers to Helen McGill, the narrator of <i>Parnassus on Wheels</i>, provides the romantic comedy that drives this charming love letter to a life in books.<br><b><br>The Art of The Novella Series<br><br></b>Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature''s greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegad