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Original Title:	The Haunted Bookshop
ISBN:	1406582646 (ISBN13: 9781406582642)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Parnassus
Series:	#2
Characters:	Roger Mifflin, Helen McGill
Setting:	Brooklyn, New York City, New York(United States)

The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus Series #2)

Christopher Morley

Paperback | Pages: 176 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 3970 Users | 663 Reviews

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Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He went to New College, Oxford University for three years on a Rhodes Scholarship, studying modern history. He moved to Philadelphia where he got his start as a newspaper reporter and then columnist for various publications. In 1920, he returned to New York City and took a job writing the column The Bowling Green for the New York Evening Post. He was one of the founders and long-time contributing editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Out of enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes stories, he became the founder of the Baker Street Irregulars and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Author of more than 100 books of essays, poetry, and novels, he is probably best known as the author of Kitty Foyle (1939), which was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. His works include Parnassus on Wheels (1917), Shandygaff (1918), The Haunted Bookshop (1919), Where the Blue Begins (1922), Thunder on the Left (1925), The Trojan Horse (1937), and The Old Mandarin (1947).

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Title	:	The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus Series #2)
Author	:	Christopher Morley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	November 23rd 2007 by Dodo Press (first published 1918)
Categories	:	Fiction. Writing. Books About Books. Mystery. Classics

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This was a delightful, old fashioned book with a clever story and interesting characters. I occasionally found Roger's long deliberations on all things literary a little tedious but this was more than made up for by the exciting mystery and the unexpected conclusion. I liked the characters enough to seek out a copy of Parnassus on Wheels which by all accounts is an even better book and one which I should probably have read first.

Jolly good fun! A delightful story (love letter of sorts in a figurative way) celebrating bookshops, booksellers, bibliophiles, wordsmiths, and the joyous phenomenon of being 'haunted' by books. "Did you ever notice how books track you down and hunt you out? They follow you like the hound in Francis Thompson's poem. They know their quarry! . . . It's one of the uncanniest things I know to watch a real book on its career - it follows you and follows you and drives you into a corner and makes

"Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worthwhile cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow them on fertile minds, to propagate understanding and a carefulness of life and beauty, isnt that high enough mission for a man? The bookseller is the real Mr. Valiant-For-Truth." Mr. Roger Mifflin, Proprietor of 'The Haunted Bookshop'I am wild for bookstores, in particular used bookstores. In fact, I can no longer visit a place, no matter how

Too philosophical for me, but I found interesting the concept of advertising the books through the minds that they influence and illuminate

I'm relistening to this and it is still perfectly charming. The love of books is wonderful and the sense of humor gentle but it makes me laugh. As I mentioned in my original comments, below, one must simply be (as the omniscient narrator tells us, "tolerant") of the little bookseller's political commentary.-------A wealthy young woman's father gets her a job at his friend's second hand book shop in order to teach her about real life. It soon turns into a mystery. Is the bookshop haunted? Or is

This is a charming homage to the world of second hand booksellers, set in the time immediately after WWI. Roger Mifflin reprises his role begun in Parnassus on Wheels but is now stationary with his now-wife Helen in a bookstore in Brooklyn, not rolling along the roads of the country as an itinerant bookseller. The story allows for frequent philosophical musing on the place of books in the then modern world, the place of the seller as an educator of the masses. If this sounds heavy, it most