Parnassus on Wheels: A Comedy of the Open Road
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A middle-aged farm woman, tired of keeping house for a brother who has become a famous author of rustic sketches, buys a traveling 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. Fifty-seven plates of open road and open country by painters from Winslow Homer to George Stubbs, from shepherdesses to the Charlton Hunt, echo the wandering book pedlar's route.
A middle-aged farm woman, tired of keeping house for a brother who has become a famous author of rustic sketches, buys a traveling 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 Rhod...
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Christopher Morley (1890–1957) was an American journalist, novelist, and editor. He wrote for the New York Evening Post and helped found the Saturday Review of Literature. His novels include Parnassus on Wheels and Where the Blue Begins.
Christopher Morley (1890–1957) was an American journalist, novelist, and editor. He wrote for the New York Evening Post and helped found the Saturday Review of Literature. His novels include Parnassus on Wheels and Where the Blue Begins.
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