Parnassus on Wheels

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Author: Christopher Morley

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-kn….Read More

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