Parnassus on Wheels

Christopher Morley's 'Parnassus on Wheels' attracted my attention alongside its sequel, The Haunted Bookshop, in a used book store in upstate New York on a book-buying vacation I took last year. The title 'Haunted Bookshop' is sure to attract most bibliophiles, and to read the dustflap and see that it was a sequel to Parnassus, with Parnassus sitting right there next to it, was too much a temptation to pass up, at least for... Read Full Review

A friend of mine, recently in the throes of moving and having to box and cart hundreds of books, declared in exasperation that she regretted ever buying a single one of them. I jokingly told her that as penance for her biblioblasphemy, she had to read Morley's Parnassus on Wheels. This in turn led me to reread the book, and I was just as delighted by it as I was when I read it as a teenager over 40 years ago. Anyone who... Read Full Review

Christopher Morley on Christopher Morley: "His early writing, which was (though not intentionally) imitative and immature, was received with absurd overpraise." Morley's self evaluation was overly critical. Now, nearly 90 years later, Morley's early works, especially Parnassus on Wheels (1917) and its sequel, The Haunted Bookshop (1919), are still widely praised. Roger Mifflin, the exuberant, irrepressible, itinerant book... Read Full Review

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... Read Full Review

This is one of my favorite novels; I re-read it every spring. It's a wonderful, hilarious "on the road" novel with a heartwarming romance thrown in for good measure. If your favorite period is America in the early 1900s, you'll love this novel!