![]() ![]() A happy book, and how many of those are there in the world? Now, this really isn’t the kind of book I’m ever likely to pick up of my own volition – a comedy of the jovial and bucolic kind, rather like the country idyll at the heart of The Winter’s Tale, but with no darkness to set against it, no bite of satire, no blissful flights of Wodehousian farce. I’d never read Christopher Morley, neither had I heard of Parnassus on Wheels, though its sequel The Haunted Bookshop probably did ring a vague bell.īut then, somewhere in a Twitter discussion of the challenge, someone said that Parnassus was a personal highlight of the series, an annual re-read I think they said, and so I plumped for it next. Part of this project, I said out the outset, was to open up my reading habits to pleasures as yet unknown, as well as to those I know from reputation, or only in part. The Art of the Novella challenge 12: Parnassus on Wheelsįirst line: I wonder if there’s not a lot of bunkum in higher education? ![]() The Art of the Novella challenge 12: Parnassus on Wheels » MobyLives ![]()
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