![]() ![]() The prequel to a later novel ( The Haunted Bookshop), and the first of two novels to be written from a woman's perspective, it offers a glimpse at a proto-feminist perspective from the early 1900s. Helen arranges to buy Parnassus, partly to prevent Andrew from buying it, but mostly to treat herself to a long-overdue adventure of her own. ![]() "When you sell a man a book," says Mifflin, "you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue you sell him a whole new life." Mifflin's delight in books and authors is infectious. One day, Roger Mifflin, who travels around the New England countryside of 1915 with his book wagon named Parnassus on an itinerant mission of enlightenment, shows up on their farm. ![]() Andrew is a former businessman, turned farmer, turned author. Helen McGill lives with her older brother, Andrew. Parnassus on Wheels is Christopher Morley's first novel and a favorite among book enthusiasts. ![]()
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