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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 McGill, who lives on a farm owned by her brother Andrew. The book’s Parnassus is a large, horse-drawn van owned by Roger Mifflin, out of which he buys and sells books while traveling around the New England countryside. Mifflin arrives at the McGill farm, looking to sell the business to someone interested in the noble cause of spreading literature to the common man. Helen is at first turned off by Mr. Mifflin, but decides on a whim that an escape from her dreadful farm—and her insufferable brother Andrew—is just what she needs. She buys the Parnassus, and embarks on exactly the type of adventure she had hoped for.
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Fiction, Classic Literature, Booksellers and bookselling, Fiction, general, Booksellers and bookselling, fiction, Traveling sales personnel, Single women, Women farmers, Brothers and sisters, Women booksellers, Tramps, Single women, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Siblings, fictionPlaces
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Parnassus on Wheels
Mar 15, 2018, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Parnassus on Wheels
May 24, 2017, Pinnacle Press, Capital Communications, Incorporated
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Parnassus on Wheels
Jun 29, 2016, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Parnassus on Wheels
2009, The Floating Press, Floating Press, The
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Parnassus on Wheels (Large Print Edition)
November 1, 2007, BiblioBazaar
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Parnassus on Wheels
June 30, 2005, Kessinger Publishing
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Parnassus on Wheels
June 23, 2005, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Parnassus on Wheels: Library Edition
September 2002, Blackstone Audiobooks
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Parnassus on Wheels
December 2000, Blackstone Audiobooks
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Parnassus on Wheels: Library Edition
January 2000, Blackstone Audiobooks
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Parnassus On Wheels
January 30, 1996, Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
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Parnassus on Wheels
December 1992, Booksellers Order Service
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Parnassus on Wheels
January 1992, Amereon Ltd, Amereon Press, Amereon Limited
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Although my name appears on the title page, the real author of this book is Miss Helen McGill (now Mrs. Roger Mifflin), who told me the story with her own inimitable vivacity. And on her behalf I want to send to you these few words of acknowledgment.
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