The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley
The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley
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The Haunted Bookshop

Author: Christopher Morley

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 6 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 09/16/2014

Synopsis

In 1917, Christopher Morley published Parnassus on Wheels, a love letter to the art of bookselling. Its suspenseful sequel, The Haunted Bookshop, finds his beloved characters married and still in love with both mystery and literature.Set in a lovingly evoked Brooklyn just after the end of World War I, The Haunted Bookshop cleverly juxtaposes a pair of middle-aged bookshop owners and two young lovers with a nest of German saboteurs, complete with mysterious clues, red herrings, blushing romance, derring-do, a desperate race to the rescue, and an explosion. More important, the novel is an eloquent hymn to the bookseller's trade and a fervent plea for the revivifying and redemptive power of literature. The unifying thread of this book, and indeed of the life and work of its author, is its passionate avowal: all that the world and everybody in it needs is a good book.

About Christopher Morley

Christopher Darlington Morley (1890–1957) was an American journalist and author of more than one hundred novels, books of essays, and volumes of poetry. He was one of the founders of the Saturday Review of Literature and is probably best known for his novel Kitty Foyle.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi on September 10, 2018

"Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worthwhile cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow them on fertile minds, to propagate understanding and a carefulness of life and beauty, isn’t that high enough mission for a man? The bookseller is th......more

Goodreads review by Jonfaith on September 19, 2015

Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race. It saddens me to think that I shall have to die with thousands of books unread that would have given me noble and unblemished happiness. Scott Esposito made a sho......more

Goodreads review by Dorcas on August 12, 2015

2.5 Stars I found this somewhat disappointing after Parnassus on Wheels. in Parnassus, we had a sweet, comfort read, perfect for book lovers. In Haunted Bookshop, we still have a bookish setting which is nice,  but the story itself (in my opinion) is a cheesy, rather boring mystery featuring German t......more

Goodreads review by Sketchbook on May 25, 2018

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading," said the civilized Christopher Morley. Here's his valentine to lovers of books and bookshops. What are spies doing at the shop in Brooklyn ? Reading the same book, of course. An early work (1919) from the likeable Morley is excessively cute. It rea......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on July 23, 2019

If you've worked in publishing, bookselling, and/or advertising and if you love "inside" industry talk and you don't mind pontificating about books that were popular in 1918 and philosophy, war and peace, and the human mind in general, and if you are interested in learning about the post-World War I......more

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