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The Haunted Bookshop

Auteur(s): Christopher Morley
Narrateur(s): Stefan Rudnicki
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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.

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This is the second book in the series and it makes more sense if you read Parnassus first (it’s charming). This was a fun story and a delight for book lovers. First published in 1919, the context right after WWI is particularly interesting, and there was some carryover. At first I found some of the anti-German language disconcerting, but it actually did a good job of reflecting the sentiment of the time.

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