Christopher Morley
Paperback | Pages: 152 pages Rating: 4.02 | 5129 Users | 1016 Reviews
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| Title | : | Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus Series #1) |
| Author | : | Christopher Morley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 152 pages |
| Published | : | January 19th 2004 by IndyPublish.com (first published 1917) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Writing. Books About Books. Classics. Humor. Adventure |
Description Concering Books Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus Series #1)
This is a pilot for a new feel-good tv series:Opening Credits:
It is a glorious morning on a deserted track somewhere in the rural Midwest. Rolling on the lane is a long gypsy-type wagon being pulled by a great big horse. On the open seat up front holding the reins is a cheery man of middle years with kind brown eyes who is laughing gently in a conversational kind of way with a fat, rather plain but very jolly lady. They are wearing clothes of the era when cars and wagons shared the roads, 1917.
Introduction:
The woman and her older brother have been happily managing their isolated farm together until the brother publishes a book and its success makes him uppity in the extreme. While he swans around being famous, she is left at home running the farm. This is seriously annoying her.
A travelling salesmen, selling books, comes to her door saying he is not just selling books but also his travelling bookstore. He wonders if her brother, the famous author, be interested in buying it? He wants to leave bookselling to go back to the city to write his book.
He shows her his wonderful, magical wagon full of all the necessities for life on the road and shelves and shelves of books. She jumps at the chance and deciding to spend her life savings and take over the business herself. So leaving a note for her brother telling him to look after himself, she closes the front door behind her, jumps on to the seat next to the bookseller and off they go.
Further scenes in the first episode
Much dialogue between the bookseller and the spinster laying out the history of their lives. He is a city man, a professor who wants to write a book. He is passionate about the ability of books to change lives for the better. She's a bit of a disappointed spinster who counts her successes in hens' eggs laid and wholesome loaves baked.
Scenes include:
1. Making the first sale.
2. The caravan being stolen and the bookseller turns out to be handy with his fists.
3. Drama over the cheque for payment being cancelled by the pissed-off brother.
3. A bank scene, an arrest, and a false imprisonment.
The denoument
Love. The stranger with a get-out-of-jail-free-card. The inevitable marriage and then the final winning over the brother. All say ahhhhh.
Can't you just see it? It was just made for tv. The late Mike Landon would have been perfect casting.
Brilliant, lovely, heart-warming book. Beautifully-written without any suspense at all. Each rather obvious episode gives warning of what is to come next and the whole thing unfolds in a pastoral, slower-times, comfy, apple-pie kind of way. A nice book to read curled up on the sofa with a cup of tea or a hot toddy to hand and nothing to do for hours and hours.
Rewritten 24 August 2013
Define Books In Favor Of Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus Series #1)
| Original Title: | Parnassus on Wheels |
| ISBN: | 1414270658 (ISBN13: 9781414270654) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Parnassus |
| Series: | #1 |
| Characters: | Roger Mifflin, Helen McGill, Andrew McGill |
| Setting: | New York State(United States) |
Rating Of Books Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus Series #1)
Ratings: 4.02 From 5129 Users | 1016 ReviewsDiscuss Of Books Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus Series #1)
A great book for middle-aged chubby book lovers, like myself. It is mostly about the love of books, and how it is never too late for an adventure.Well, I just had WAY too much fun with this hilarious and off-the-wall romance. How fun! But I knew I was going to love any book that started out like this:"I wonder if there isn't a lot of bunkum in higher education? I never found that people who were learned in logarithms and other kinds of poetry were any quicker in washing dishes or darning socks. I've done a good deal of reading when I could, and I don't want to 'admit impediments' to the love of books, but I've also seen lots of good,
Actually finished this one late last night, so it counts for the last of my Classic Bribe Challenge Reads. Parnassus on Wheels (1917) is the first novel by Christopher Morley. It tells the story of Helen McGill who is getting tired of taking care of her older brother Andrew who has recently become a famous "homespun" author and who is spending less and less time doing the farm chores that are supposed to be his end of the bargain. One day Roger Mifflin, owner of the Parnassus on Wheels traveling
Such a charmer. A must-read for any bibliophile.
"What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is contentall the great things in life are done by discontented people."-- Roger Mifflin of Mifflin's Travelling ParnassusThis is a tale of adventure, and although actual mileage is accrued and county lines are crossed, it's really more a personal journey -- one woman's mission to travel outside her comfort borders. For the past 15
There isn't much I can say about this book other then that it was a great read. Brilliantly written, while still kept quiet simple and above all else, lovely.
Ah, delightful story! I read it through in one sitting (it isn't very long) and loved every bit of the tale of Helen, Roger, and Parnassus the bookmobile. Helen is growing deeply tired of tending her brother's affairs when she meets Roger Mifflin, who wants to sell Parnassus so he can go to Brooklyn and write his book in peace. Helen, in a streak of adventure, buys the mobile and sets off to become a bookseller. I loved the descriptionsHelen is thirty-nine and "heavy" but shows plenty of sense
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