Author: Christopher MorleyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1304
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Christopher Morley's Omnibus
Author: Christopher MorleyThe Standard Doyle Company
Author: Christopher MorleyPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823212927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The cult of Sherlock Holmes and its organizational centerpiece, The Baker Street Irregulars, were products of the fertile mind of Christopher Morley (1890-1957), one of the most versatile and prolific writers of the first half of the twentieth century. Novelist, essayist, columnist, Book-of-the-Month Club judge, poet, panelist, and promoter, Morley was an avid exponent of the literature he loved. Few writers were closer to his heart than Arthur Conan Doyle, whose tales of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were still being penned during Morley's boyhood. This collection is a virtual anthology of Morley's many styles. In addition to old favorites like "In Memoriam Sherlock Holmes," the preface to the Doubleday edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes published in 1930 and probably the most widely read Sherlockian essay of them all, here are previously unpublished or never-before-collected essays, poems, short stories, and even a play. Excerpts from the fifteen years of Morley's columns in the Saturday Review of Literature and a decade of his "Clinical Notes by a Resident Patient" in the Baker Street Journal (currently published by Fordham University Press) cover ever aspect of Holmes's world - from dressing gowns to Turkish baths, from beekeeping to the "B" in 221B Baker Street. As Morley put it in his little-known reader for high-school students, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, "A Textbook of Friendship, "The beginning reader of Sherlock Holmes concerns himself with little more than attentive enjoyment, but there is a post-graduate school as well. There is a special and superior pleasure in reading anything so much more carefully than its author ever did." The Standard Doyle Company - Morley's punning title for the Baker Street Irregulars - is an advanced syllabus for the lover of Sherlockian literature and lore.
Thunder on the Left
Author: Christopher MorleyPublisher:
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Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Fantasy about children at a party who decide to spy on their elders and their tangled lives.
Parnassus on Wheels
Author: Christopher MorleyPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Plum Pudding
Author: Christopher MorleyPublisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Chimneysmoke
Author: Christopher MorleyPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 143448954X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Includes such poems as Peter Pan (written upon the news that the little boy who inspired J.M. Barrie's character had died in battle), A Charm, Secret Laughter, and many more. Copiously illustrated by Thomas Fogarty.
Thursday Evening
Author: Christopher MorleyPublisher:
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Category : Housekeeping
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Pipefuls
Author: Christopher MorleyPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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By Christopher Morley is a collection of essays and reflections that offer insights into American literature and culture. Morley's writing is characterized by its wit and charm, making this book an enjoyable read for those who appreciate classic essays and American literary commentary.
The Haunted Bookshop
Author: Christopher MorleyPublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612192254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Volumes disappear and reappear on the shelves, but the ghosts of literature aren’t the only mysterious visitors in Roger Mifflin’s haunted bookshop. Mifflin, who hawked books out of the back of his van in Christopher Morley’s beloved Parnassus on Wheels, has finally settled down with his own secondhand bookstore in Brooklyn. There, he and his wife, Helen, are content to live and work together, prescribing literature to those who hardly know how much they need it. When Aubrey Gilbert, a young advertising man, visits the shop, he quickly falls under the spell of Mifflin’s young assistant, Titania. But something is amiss in the bookshop, something Mifflin is too distracted to notice, and Gilbert has no choice but to take the young woman’s safety into his own hands. Her life—and the Mifflins’—may depend on it. With a deep respect for the art of bookselling, and as much flair for drama as romance, Christopher Morley has crafted a lively, humorous tale for book lovers everywhere.
Modern Essays
Author: Christopher MorleyPublisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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