The Haunted Bookshop is not a novel of the supernatural. Rather, the title of this book refers to the ghosts of the past that haunt all libraries and bookstores, or "the ghosts of all great literature." Throughout the novel Morley, through the character of Roger Mifflin, makes reference to the knowledge and wisdom that one can gain from literature.Every reader who made the delightful acquaintance of Roger Mifflin in "Parnassus on Wheels" will rejoice upon ...

Prohibition arrives and America goes dry — so the last men who remember beer form a secret society, and the story of the resistance is told with the straightest face imaginable. Morley was a Rhodes Scholar and a founder of the Saturday Review who made bookishness charming to a generation; he and Haley published this in 1919, the year the Amendment passed, and the prophecy is funnier now than it was then.

Mr Gissing, a dog, keeps a suburban house and three puppies, and sets out to find God — via a department store, a bishopric and a berth as a ship's stoker. Morley was a Rhodes Scholar and a founder of the Saturday Review; this 1922 fantasy is his strangest book, and the theology is entirely serious under the fur.

A middle-aged farm woman, tired of keeping house for a brother who has become a famous author of rustic sketches, buys a travelling bookshop — horse, van and stock — from the little red-bearded man driving it, and takes to the roads of New England selling literature door to door. Morley was a Rhodes Scholar and a founder of the Saturday Review who adored books to the point of writing this in 1917 as a love letter to selling them.

ICONIC WOMEN: Novels, Biographies & Memoirs assembles a capacious transatlantic archive of women's lives, ambitions, constraints, and self-fashioning. Moving among realist and Gothic fiction, domestic narratives, social protest, political testimony, biography, and memoir, the volume charts changing conceptions of gender from the eighteenth century through modernity. Its selection brings canonical novels into productive relation with less frequently anthologized reformist writing, labor adv...

The '50 Feminist Classics in One Volume' gathers groundbreaking literary works that have shaped and challenged the discourse of gender equality and societal roles through piercing narrative artistry. Spanning over two centuries, this anthology integrates a rich variety of prose, from the reflective Austenian social critique to Woolf's stream of consciousness and the stark realism of Hardy and Dreiser. Embedded within each narrative is the persistent quest for identity and autonomy, resonat...

The anthology 'The True Women Influencers of the Past' presents an intricate tapestry of voices that define the evolving roles and perceptions of women across centuries. Engaging with key works from a pantheon of illustrious authors like Willa Cather to Virginia Woolf, the collection showcases a breathtaking range in literary style—from the incisive social realism of Elizabeth Gaskell to the pioneering feminist arguments of Mary Wollstonecraft. This compelling volume not only traverses geo...

Parnassus on Wheels was written by Christopher Morley and first published in 1917. It's Morley's first novel, about a fictional traveling book-selling business. The original owner of the business, Roger Mifflin, sells it to 39-year-old Helen McGill, who is tired of taking care of her older brother, Andrew. Andrew is a former businessman turned farmer, turned author. As an author, he begins using the farm as his Muse rather than a livelihood. When Mifflin shows up with his traveling booksto...

If you’re here for a ghost story, you may be disappointed.It’s a romance, it’s a mystery, it’s full of intrigue, it’s a celebration of the magic of books, but (spoiler alert?) you’re not going to find any supernatural beings on these pages. If that disappoints you, well, this book may not be for you.But if you love a good book, you’re about to meet a kindred spirit. His name is Roger Mifflin, and he can’t stop talking about how books can save your life, save your soul and p...

ANGELS OR DEMONS gathers fifty feminist classics into a capacious genealogy of women's self-definition, social constraint, sexual politics, labor, marriage, and artistic ambition. Moving among the Gothic, domestic realism, satire, psychological fiction, social protest, and modernist experiment, the volume places canonical landmarks beside less frequently taught interventions. Its title captures a persistent cultural binary that these works scrutinize: the demand that women appear either vi...

In "The Story of Ginger Cubes," Christopher Morley presents a delightful and whimsical narrative that intertwines elements of fantasy and everyday life. Set against the backdrop of mid-20th century America, Morley'Äôs storytelling is characterized by his sharp wit and lyrical prose, blending humor with poignant reflections on the human experience. The narrative centers around a quirky group of characters whose interactions are as sweet as the titular ginger cubes, revealing deeper truths a...

Parnassus on Wheels is Christopher Morley's first novel, and the first of two written from a woman's perspective, the second being The Haunted Bookshop , this book's sequel. Parnassus on Wheels was inspired by a novel by David Grayson (pseudonym of Ray Stannard Baker) called The Friendly Road , and is prefaced by a letter to Grayson from Morley. The word "Parnassus" from the title refers to "Mount Parnassus," the home of the Muses in Greek mythology. The protagonist is 39-year-old Helen Mc...