I imagined him in his beloved Brooklyn, strolling in Prospect Park and
preaching to chance comers about his gospel of good books.
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 Haunted Bookshop, the whole new life that the traveling
bookman delivers to Helen McGill, the narrator of Parnassus on Wheels,
provides the romantic comedy that drives this charming love letter to a
life in books.
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The Art of The Novella Series**
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 renegade art form
and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented
in book form for the first time.