Christopher Morley (1890–1957)
Auteur van The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
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Notes on Bermuda 13 exemplaren
The goldfish under the ice 12 exemplaren
Christopher Morley's Briefcase 11 exemplaren
Born in a Beer Garden 11 exemplaren
Passivity program 9 exemplaren
Rehearsal, a Play 9 exemplaren
Shakespeare and Hawaii 9 exemplaren
The Middle Kingdom Poems 1929-1944 9 exemplaren
One Act Plays 9 exemplaren
Hide and seek 9 exemplaren
The Eight Sin 8 exemplaren
Hostages to Fortune a Collection of Poems, Essays and Short Stories Written for the Haverfordian During His College… 8 exemplaren
Friends, Romans .... 6 exemplaren
The Bowling Green 6 exemplaren
Thursday evening : a realistic comedy 6 exemplaren
Don't open until Christmas 6 exemplaren
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson 5 exemplaren
On the return of a book lent to a friend 5 exemplaren
Rubaiyat of account overdue 5 exemplaren
The Haverford edition of Christopher Morley 5 exemplaren
Toulemonde 5 exemplaren
Apologia pro sua preoccupatione, 5 exemplaren
No Crabb No Christmas 5 exemplaren
Outward bound 5 exemplaren
On the nose 4 exemplaren
An apology for Boccaccio 4 exemplaren
A ride in the cab of the Twentieth Century Limited 4 exemplaren
Good theatre 4 exemplaren
Sherlock Holmes's prayer 4 exemplaren
Blythe mountain, Vermont, 4 exemplaren
Two fables 4 exemplaren
Frederic G. Melcher: Friendly Reminiscences of a Half Century Among Books & Bookmen (1945) 4 exemplaren
The child and the book 4 exemplaren
Parnassus On Wheels illusrated 3 exemplaren
And a sun-burned nose 3 exemplaren
Christopher Morley's omnibus : an excursion among the books of Christopher Morley (1933) 3 exemplaren
A message for Vincent Starrett 3 exemplaren
Blanket to cover a set of sheets, or, Prolegomenon to a pack of Sybilline leaves from Argus 3 exemplaren
The Last Pipe 3 exemplaren
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume One 3 exemplaren
The Ship Tusitala 3 exemplaren
Sherlockiana : two sonnets 3 exemplaren
Kitty 3 exemplaren
Moments of millennium : from John Mistletoe 3 exemplaren
Christmas Eve 3 exemplaren
A book of great autobiography 3 exemplaren
To Fra Giovanni at Pontassieve : near Firenze 3 exemplaren
Sir Kenelm reads in bed 3 exemplaren
Kitty Foyle matchbook 3 exemplaren
Rare Books: An Essay 3 exemplaren
Winter's tales by Isak Dinesen: [pseud.] [review] 3 exemplaren
Proofreader's mind 3 exemplaren
The Mark Twain commemoration 2 exemplaren
Poscimur 2 exemplaren
In an auction room : Letter of John Keats to Fanny Brawne, Anderson Galleries, March 15, 1920 2 exemplaren
A prologue for the Old Rialto Theatre, Hoboken 2 exemplaren
Kitty Foyliana : or, The natural history of a natural. Being the special advertising campaign reprinted from the New… 2 exemplaren
Morrell 1936 household calendar 2 exemplaren
The Gutenberg address 2 exemplaren
Goudiamus igitur 2 exemplaren
[Note card] 2 exemplaren
A Gathering of Booksellers 2 exemplaren
Murder in Red and Green 2 exemplaren
Walt Whitman in Camden corrected galley proof 2 exemplaren
Musings from "The Old Mandarin" 2 exemplaren
A Birthday Greeting for William Shakespeare 2 exemplaren
Really, my dear : a play in one act 2 exemplaren
Animal Crackers 2 exemplaren
Tolmanisms : a selection from The man who made friends with himself by Christopher Morley 2 exemplaren
I wonder if you can somehow pass on to friends in The Trade a private word about John Mistletoe. 2 exemplaren
The worst Christmas story 2 exemplaren
On belonging to clubs 2 exemplaren
Information Please 2 exemplaren
Paumanok 2 exemplaren
Trueno a la izquierda 2 exemplaren
Trade winds 2 exemplaren
Old thoughts for Christmas 2 exemplaren
Cricket & Morley Unincoporated 2 exemplaren
Mr. Morley Takes the Train 2 exemplaren
Christmas cards 2 exemplaren
The Blue and the Gray, or, War Is Hell 2 exemplaren
Passport : Hoboken Free State 2 exemplaren
Friends of the Library; 2 exemplaren
Andrew McGill's idea of happiness 2 exemplaren
BR's secret passion 2 exemplaren
Notes on Bermuda proof for advertisement 2 exemplaren
Footnotes for an Centennial 2 exemplaren
A golden string 2 exemplaren
The Blue and the Gray, a Play, Revised and Edified from an Old Script By Judson Kilpatricj and J. Owen Moore 2 exemplaren
The Eight Sin, 5 pp. manuscript, inscribed 2 exemplaren
Darkness at noon by Arthur Koestler 2 exemplaren
A short story and poems 2 exemplaren
The Christmas tobacco 2 exemplaren
Lidská bytost 2 exemplaren
Christopher Morley's scrapbook 2 exemplaren
Thoughts at the bottom of a mug of cider 1 exemplaar
The Week-end library 1 exemplaar
The commutation chophouse 1 exemplaar
In memoriam Sherlock Holmes 1 exemplaar
The Fifth Seal 1 exemplaar
The battle of Manila envelopes 1 exemplaar
Garridebean games 1 exemplaar
East of Eden 1 exemplaar
Christopher Morley reads His Last Bow 1 exemplaar
Foggy Bottom 1 exemplaar
Trade Winds for 13 November 1937 3pp. manuscript 1 exemplaar
Baedeker Fibbed 1 exemplaar
A Hymn for America 1 exemplaar
Noes on bermuda dust jacket proof 1 exemplaar
Drug store : about a man who bought a notion at the crossroads of American merchandising 1 exemplaar
A Conversation by Mail 1 exemplaar
Lucky Dio 1 exemplaar
Unpublished Epigrams 1 exemplaar
Walt : a one-act portrait 1 exemplaar
Thirty Out of Forty-Eight 1 exemplaar
Christopher Morley 1 exemplaar
Notes on Bermuda, four clipped advertisements 1 exemplaar
Sherlock Holmes Returns 1 exemplaar
Check 1 exemplaar
The Smart set anthology 1 exemplaar
Left to their own devices 1 exemplaar
The Century 1 exemplaar
Kinder im Traum; Roman 1 exemplaar
Les grandes personnes : Thunder on the left 1 exemplaar
Geladen Atmosfeer 1 exemplaar
Naar det tordner fra Vest 1 exemplaar
On visiting bookshops 1 exemplaar
Autograph letter signed to Mabel Cheyney 1 exemplaar
Rudolph and Amina advertising postcard 1 exemplaar
Ben Abramson, Bookseller 1 exemplaar
Als to Harry Galland 26 November 1937 1 exemplaar
Eumenides of book collecting 1 exemplaar
Letters of Rudyard Kipling 1 exemplaar
Around the clock 1 exemplaar
The great American parade 1 exemplaar
Quatre Morceaux 1 exemplaar
Le Cheval de Troie: "the Troyan horse" 1 exemplaar
Andrew McGill, Ph.D. (Harb.). 1 exemplaar
Three kinds of collectors 1 exemplaar
Christopher D. Morley card 1 exemplaar
Handkerchief: Christopher Morley 1 exemplaar
Hoboken Free State : E. pluribus euthanasia 1 exemplaar
The Foundry set of six notice postcards 1 exemplaar
El caballo de Troya 1 exemplaar
Il cavallo di Troia, romanzo 1 exemplaar
Virtigo 1 exemplaar
Red Plush by Guy McCrone 1 exemplaar
Time to Light the Furnace 1 exemplaar
Dowager of the Sea 10pp. manuscript 1 exemplaar
Ebb tide / Christopher Morley 1 exemplaar
The Woods Colt by Thames Williamson 1 exemplaar
Winter's Tales by Isak Dinesen 1 exemplaar
Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benét 1 exemplaar
Unforgotten Years by Logan Pearsall Smith 1 exemplaar
Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan 1 exemplaar
Trelawny by Margaret Armstrong 1 exemplaar
They Were Expendable by W. L. White 1 exemplaar
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell 1 exemplaar
R.F.D. by Charles Allen Smart 1 exemplaar
Persons and Places by George Santayana 1 exemplaar
Gentlemen's Relish {poem} 1 exemplaar
Pepita by Vita Sackville-West 1 exemplaar
The Omnibus of Crime edited by Dorothy L. Sayers 1 exemplaar
My Name Is Aram by William Saroyan 1 exemplaar
Mr. Skeffington by Elizabeth 1 exemplaar
More Poems by A. E. Housman 1 exemplaar
Matador by Marguerite Steen 1 exemplaar
Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett 1 exemplaar
Lovely Is the Lee by Robert Gibbings 1 exemplaar
Lost Island by James Norman Hall 1 exemplaar
Jerry's Back Room 1 exemplaar
When You Sell A Man A Book 1 exemplaar
Language in Action by S. I. Hayakawa 1 exemplaar
One of the Family 1 exemplaar
American Rhodes scholars, Oxford, 1910-1913 1 exemplaar
Dressers Decorative Design 1 exemplaar
Song for a Little House 1 exemplaar
Tuono a sinistra 1 exemplaar
The Shorter Bartletts Familiar Quotations 1 exemplaar
Notes with a Yellow Pen 1 exemplaar
The Claque quacks 1 exemplaar
"Origin of a Clever Quip" 1 exemplaar
The Amateur Book Collector (Vol II No. 9 - May 1953) - Chris Morley Article About Argus Returning to Chicago 1 exemplaar
The Complete Sherlock Holmes 1 exemplaar
Cavallo di Troia, Il 1 exemplaar
The Week-End Library 1 exemplaar
Christopher Morley's Collected Works: Chimneysmoke, Mince Pie, Kathleen, Where the Blue Begins, Pipefuls, Plum… (2013) 1 exemplaar
Poems and Translations From the Chinese 1 exemplaar
Elegy in a Railroad Station 1 exemplaar
For Goodness' Sake 1 exemplaar
Fluctuat nec Mergitur 1 exemplaar
Powders of Sympathy 1 exemplaar
Expense report 1 exemplaar
Trojan Horse ad 1 exemplaar
Paumonok archive 1 exemplaar
The Scrip of Joy: A Thought for Christmas 1 exemplaar
Reversible Sonnet 1 exemplaar
A Printer's Madrigal (Extremely technical) 1 exemplaar
Old Mole 1 exemplaar
Gilbert and Sullivan 1 exemplaar
Hulbert Footner (1877–1944) 1 exemplaar
"Endless River" (Felix Riesenberg, 1879–1939) 1 exemplaar
On Ben Abramson 1 exemplaar
Manners Makyth the Man 1 exemplaar
The Greystone Book of Christmas 1 exemplaar
Kitty Foyle Archive 1 exemplaar
Christopher Morley's Briefcase Contents page 1 exemplaar
Autograph 1 exemplaar
The Sunny Side of Grub Street 1 exemplaar
Confessions of a Smoker 1 exemplaar
Saki 1 exemplaar
Parnassus at Home 1 exemplaar
The Human Comedy by William Saroyan 1 exemplaar
The Ballad and the Source by Rosamond Lehmann 1 exemplaar
Hell on Ice by Commander Edward Ellsberg 1 exemplaar
A Further Range by Robert Frost 1 exemplaar
The Fifth Seal by Mark Aldanov 1 exemplaar
Escape by Ethel Vance 1 exemplaar
Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp 1 exemplaar
c/o Postmaster by Corporal Thomas St. George 1 exemplaar
Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming 1 exemplaar
A Quick Preview of Back Home by Bill Mauldin 1 exemplaar
Pulling Seaweed 1 exemplaar
Animal Farm by George Orwell 1 exemplaar
The American Character by Denis Brogan 1 exemplaar
Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison 1 exemplaar
Envelope addressed to JohnG. Kidd, Esq. 1 exemplaar
Oxford Yarns 1 exemplaar
Bran Gems recipe 1 exemplaar
A song about Cider 1 exemplaar
Mascots of the Old Rialto Theatre 1 exemplaar
March 25, 1930 1 exemplaar
Untitled essay set in France 1 exemplaar
17 Heriot Row 1 exemplaar
Purely Original 1 exemplaar
Bifurcation, 7pp. Amss 1 exemplaar
Notes on Walt, 10pp. manuscript 1 exemplaar
The Wit and Wisdom of Christopher Morley 1 exemplaar
Dandy Dandelion 1 exemplaar
Barns 1 exemplaar
To the Only Begetter and The Last Sonnet 1 exemplaar
To the Little House 1 exemplaar
To His Executors 1 exemplaar
Thomas Bird Mosher 1 exemplaar
Te Deum Laudanum 1 exemplaar
The story of a Belgian dog, being a review of Pierrot: dog of Belgium, by Walter A. Dyer 1 exemplaar
A Salute to Christmas 1 exemplaar
When We Were Parted 1 exemplaar
[Receipt for Travelling Parnassus] 1 exemplaar
Hymn to the dairymaids of Beacon Street 1 exemplaar
Here's what Christopher Morley thinks— 1 exemplaar
The Foundry 1 exemplaar
Excerpt from Human Being 1 exemplaar
[Editorial Room Broadside] 1 exemplaar
The author to the printer 1 exemplaar
She troupes to conquer : [a prologue for the Old Rialto Theatre, Hoboken, New York, .. December 10, 1928.] 1 exemplaar
The Black Beetles 1 exemplaar
To the class of 1910 : fair warning 1 exemplaar
Bright Cages publicity 1 exemplaar
Surprise Package 1 exemplaar
A Smoke-Ring from The Hunted Bookshop 1 exemplaar
A Silver anniversary tribute to Ellery Queen from authors, critics, editors & famous fans 1 exemplaar
Heywood 1 exemplaar
Traffic 1 exemplaar
Motto to Hang on a Wall 1 exemplaar
Notes on a Visit to the White House 1 exemplaar
Verloren, Verloren 1 exemplaar
Washing the dishes 1 exemplaar
Two sonnets 1 exemplaar
Two Pictures from Normancy 1 exemplaar
[Important] To Members of the Foundry 1 exemplaar
Pessimism 1 exemplaar
The Apologia of the Ampersand 1 exemplaar
The adventure of the F.W.L. 1 exemplaar
The Unmentionable 1 exemplaar
Floating Particles 1 exemplaar
The Bowling Green, 19 Dec. 1925 1 exemplaar
Bartender's Moustache 1 exemplaar
The Premium Complete Collection of Christopher Morley: (Huge Collection Including Chimneysmoke, Kathleen, Parnassus on… (2018) 1 exemplaar
This Book Belongs to 1 exemplaar
1930 Colophon:Vol.1,#3 - Paris Street Woodcut - Afro French Poetry in Louisiana - California School of Printing (1930) 1 exemplaar
LETTER TO LEONORA 1 exemplaar
Poems By Christopher Morley 1 exemplaar
The keys of the kingdom by A.J. Cronin: [review] 1 exemplaar
The Red and White Girdle 1 exemplaar
REALLY, MY DEAR... 1 exemplaar
Barometers & bookshops 1 exemplaar
Bookplates: An Exchange of Letters Between Mr. Christopher Morley and Mrs. Louise Seymour Jones MCMXLVII 1 exemplaar
An open letter from Christopher Morley 1 exemplaar
The Equitable Trust Company of Atlantic City 1 exemplaar
Old Reliable from Plum Pudding 1 exemplaar
Morley on the Prenatal Word 1 exemplaar
Mr. Hutaf sees Hoboken in aquiline perspective 1 exemplaar
Literary Blood-Transfusion 1 exemplaar
Lines from Christopher Morley 1 exemplaar
Lincoln's doctor's dog 1 exemplaar
Christmas Card of A. Edward Newton for 1918 1 exemplaar
A selection of choice items ... 1 exemplaar
From The Mind and Pen of Christopher Morley 1 exemplaar
Esoterica viniana 1 exemplaar
Epigrams in a cellar 1 exemplaar
Dedication for a bookseller's window 1 exemplaar
Deus haec Otia Fecit 1 exemplaar
Christopher Darlington Morley 1 exemplaar
A Christmas salute 1 exemplaar
Madonna and Child 1 exemplaar
Jemima Plays Her Soft Guitar 1 exemplaar
Even thinking about God is no excuse ... 1 exemplaar
Hamlet 1 exemplaar
The Owl 1 exemplaar
Translations from the Chinese 9pp, manuscript 1 exemplaar
Abandoned Husbands 1 exemplaar
'On These Things I Built My Work': The Ecstatic and the Sad Live Again as John Masefield Recalls His Past 1 exemplaar
The Autogenesis of a Poet 1 exemplaar
Hoboken Nights 1 exemplaar
When Brady Waves ... It's 3:05! 1 exemplaar
Behave Yourself 1 exemplaar
After Dar hand-painted lobby card 1 exemplaar
A Motion Picture Treatment of Human Being 1 exemplaar
No turn on Red! 1 exemplaar
One Night Stand 1 exemplaar
Sun Cured carbon typescript 1 exemplaar
New York One Way 1 exemplaar
Miss Libby 1 exemplaar
Soft Shoulders: The commuter's Comedy 1 exemplaar
Kathleen, film script 1 exemplaar
Kitty Foyle Lobby Card 1 exemplaar
Soft Shoulders poster 1 exemplaar
Henry Seidel Canby original photograh signed 1 exemplaar
Hunting Mark's Remainders, 12pp. manuscript 1 exemplaar
Unique 1 exemplaar
A Goodbye 1 exemplaar
Picking Up Corn 7pp manuscript 1 exemplaar
Trade Winds for 30 March 1934 3pp. manuscript 1 exemplaar
Trade Winds for 21 July 1934 5pp. manuscript 1 exemplaar
Trade Winds for 7 July 1934 5pp. manuscript 1 exemplaar
Ballad of British Blessings, 2 pp. manuscript 1 exemplaar
Set of six photographs 1 exemplaar
A Night Club Entertainer, 1 page manuscript 1 exemplaar
The Poet's Pen: A Fairy-Tale 9-page manuscript 1 exemplaar
A Midsummer Night's Reading, 12-page manuscript 1 exemplaar
[The Trojan Horse] advertising 1 exemplaar
Bookmark 1 exemplaar
The Folder, Amss, 23 June 1934, 4pp. 1 exemplaar
Translations from the Chinese, Amss 1p & 6pp 1 exemplaar
Hohenzollern Mother Goose, Autograph mss, 2pp 1 exemplaar
Author's night : sponsored by the thirty first annual convention of the American Booksellers' Association.… 1 exemplaar
Frederic G. Melcher, of Publishers' Weekly, will speak before the Society of Printers on January 7th, 1946. 1 exemplaar
Blythe Mountain Publisher's prosepctus 1 exemplaar
Les Plaisirs et le Jours, manuscript 8pp. 1 exemplaar
C. Morley and Co. Wine Merchants 1 exemplaar
Pleased to Meet You Playbill 1 exemplaar
Match books 1 exemplaar
Autograph not for The Three Hours for Lunch Club 1 exemplaar
Autographed slip 1 exemplaar
This is not Rex Stout 1 exemplaar
Tusitala, Outward Bound 1 exemplaar
An essay on Transylvania 1 exemplaar
A Venture in Mysticism Amss 8pp 1 exemplaar
Te Deum Laudanum, proof copies 1 exemplaar
Strong sensual germs 1 exemplaar
The Old Mandarin proof sheet 1 exemplaar
The Ship "Tusitala" offprint 1 exemplaar
Ode to the Comp. Room 1 exemplaar
The Havefordian 1 exemplaar
Passivity Program inscribed galley proof 1 exemplaar
A Little Back Room 1 exemplaar
The Second Mate galley sheets 1 exemplaar
Turkish Teeth, autograph mss, signed 7pp 1 exemplaar
Shakespeare in Stratford Church, Amss 2pp. 1 exemplaar
Satisfaction Piece, Amss 9pp 1 exemplaar
Really, My Dear, Amss 15pp. 1 exemplaar
Letters to the Colvins, Amss 8pp 1 exemplaar
Elysian Fields, Amss, 6pp. 1 exemplaar
The Birth of God, Amss 4pp 1 exemplaar
Bertha and Her Pottage, 8pp Manuscript signed 1 exemplaar
The case of Bouck White 1 exemplaar
Plum Pudding corrected galleys inscribed 1 exemplaar
The Blue and the Gray 1 exemplaar
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- Morley, Christopher Darlington
- Geboortedatum
- 1890-05-05
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1957-03-28
- Graflocatie
- Roslyn Cemetery, Roslyn, New York, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA (birth)
- Geboorteplaats
- Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Roslyn Heights, Long Island, New York, USA
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- Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
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Roslyn Heights, New York, USA - Opleiding
- Haverford College
Oxford University (New College) - Beroepen
- journalist
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- Morley, Felix (brother)
Morley, F. V. (brother)
Morley, Frank (father) - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1936)
Baker Street Irregulars (founder)
Book-of-the-Month Club (judge)
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- Christopher Morley (5 May 1890 – 28 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
Morley was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. His father, Frank Morley, was a mathematics professor at Haverford College; his mother, Lilian Janet Bird, was a violinist who provided Christopher with much of his later love for literature and poetry.
In 1900 the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. In 1906 Christopher entered Haverford College, graduating in 1910 as valedictorian. He then went to New College, Oxford, for three years on a Rhodes scholarship, studying modern history.
In 1913 Morley completed his Oxford studies and moved to New York City, New York. On June 14, 1914, he married Helen Booth Fairchild, with whom he would have four children, including Louise Morley Cochrane. They first lived in Hempstead, and then in Queens Village. They then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in 1920 they made their final move, to a house they called "Green Escape" in Roslyn Estates, New York. They remained there for the rest of his life. In 1936 he built a cabin at the rear of the property (The Knothole), which he maintained as his writing study from then on.
In 1951 Morley suffered a series of strokes, which greatly reduced his voluminous literary output. He died on 28 March 1957, and was buried in the Roslyn Cemetery in Nassau County, New York. After his death, two New York newspapers published his last message to his friends:
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
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Plotseling is Helen de eigenaresse van een rijdende boekenwinkel, compleet met trekpaard en waakhond, en rijdt ze samen met Roger Miffin, de vorige eigenaar (die een eind verderop de trein naar New York gaat nemen om eindelijk dat boek te schrijven dat hij al zo lang in zijn hoofd heeft), van boerderij naar boerderij en van dorp naar dorp. Voor haar broer, die even van huis is, laat ze een briefje achter met de tekst:
"I've gone off for an adventure. It just came over me that you've had all the adventures while I've been at home baking bread. Mrs. McNally will look after your meals and one of her girls can come over to do the housework. So don't worry. I'm going off for a little while—a month, maybe—to see some of this happiness and hayseed of yours. It's what the magazines call the revolt of womanhood." En daar kan broerlief het mee doen.
Boeken waren nog echt wat bijzonders op het Amerikaanse platteland van een eeuw geleden. Mensen hadden niet alleen honger naar kennis, maar vooral naar mooie verhalen, of zoals Roger uitlegt aan Helen: "when you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean." Hij brengt de tweedehands boeken uit zijn Pipo-de-Clownachtige wagen dan ook met groot gemak aan de man en ook Helen blijkt (als rechtgeaarde Amerikaanse) een geboren verkoopster te zijn.
Voor Helen vallen boeken samen met vrijheid en avontuur. In een tijd dat vrouwenrechten nog niet bestonden biedt de rijdende boekwinkel haar op onverwachte en originele wijze bevrijding. Weg met de keuken, lang leve de boeken! Morley heeft een heel lichtvoetig en lief-humoristisch verhaal gemaakt van haar avontuur, zonder gepreek of zwaar gefilosofeer. Het idealisme van Roger is doorweven met een flinke dosis pragmatisme en kennis van de doelgroep.
Addison, Lamb, Hazlitt, Emerson, Lowell—take any one you choose—they all conceive the love of books as a rare and perfect mystery for the few—a thing of the secluded study where they can sit alone at night with a candle, and a cigar, and a glass of port on the table and a spaniel on the hearthrug. What I say is, who has ever gone out into high roads and hedges to bring literature home to the plain man?
Zo mag ik het horen! En ik vermoed dat ook mijn overgrootvader, een turfschipper die vóór de oorlog in zijn woninkje in een Fries boerendorp een kamer had ingericht als bibliotheekje waar andere arbeiders boeken konden lenen, het uitstekend met Roger en Helen had kunnen vinden. Over een tijdje ga ik het vervolg op hun avontuur, The Haunted Bookshop, eens lezen. Hopelijk is dat net zo leuk.
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