Kitty Foyle (1939), a controversial novel exploring the intersection of class and marriage, was adapted into a 1940 film starring Ginger Rogers, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role. Parnassus on wheels : Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Loading viewer Favorite Parnassus on wheels by Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 Gorsline, Douglas W. Andrew is a former businessman turned farmer, turned author. 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. A gifted humorist, poet, and storyteller, Morley wrote over one hundred novels and collections of essays and poetry in his lifetime. Morley's first novel, about a fictional traveling book-selling business. In 1920, Morley moved one final time to Roslyn Estates in Nassau County, Long Island, commuting to the city for work as an editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. After moving his family to Philadelphia, Morley worked as an editor for Ladies’ Home Journal and then as a reporter for the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. After three years, he moved to New York, found work as a publicist and publisher’s reader at Doubleday, and married Helen Booth Fairchild. While in England, he published The Eighth Sin (1912), a volume of poems.
Upon graduating as valedictorian in 1910, he went to Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship to study modern history. In 1900, Christopher moved with his parents to Baltimore, returning to Pennsylvania in 1906 to attend Haverford College. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, he was the son of mathematics professor Frank Morley and violinist Lillian Janet Bird. This roaring good adventure yarn is spiced with fiery roadside brawls, heroic escapes from death, the most groaning boards in the history of Yankee cookery, and a rare love story-not to mention a glimpse at a feminist perspective from the early 1900s.Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American journalist, poet, and novelist. But a certain spirited spinster, disgruntled with her life, may have a hand in changing all that. 5311: Release Date: Mar 1, 2004: Copyright Status: Public domain in the. Mifflin's delight in books and authors is infectious-with his singular philosophy and bright eyes, he comes to represent the heart and soul of the book world. Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957: Title: Parnassus on Wheels Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Booksellers and bookselling - Fiction Subject: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction Category: Text: EBook-No. With his traveling book wagon named Parnassus, he moves through the New England countryside of 1915 on an itinerant mission of enlightenment. See images for the condition of this book.īlurb: Roger Mifflin is part pixie, part sage, part noble savage, and all God's creature. About 1/4 of the book has a turndown corner crease on the top of the page right side. Condition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and consistent use.
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