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Obras de Christopher Morley

The Haunted Bookshop (1919) 2,035 cópias
Parnassus on Wheels (1917) 1,768 cópias
Kitty Foyle (1939) 189 cópias
Where the Blue Begins (1922) 160 cópias
Thunder on the Left (1925) 140 cópias
The Trojan Horse (1937) 89 cópias
Human Being (1932) 61 cópias
Shandygaff (1918) 52 cópias
Pipefuls (1920) 47 cópias
Thorofare (1942) 42 cópias
Mince Pie (1919) 42 cópias
Ex Libris Carissimis (1932) 41 cópias
I Know a Secret (1927) 39 cópias
Ex Libris (1936) 38 cópias
The Romany Stain (1926) 36 cópias
Modern Essays (1921) — Editor — 33 cópias
Chimneysmoke (1777) 32 cópias
John Mistletoe (1931) 31 cópias
Travels in Philadelphia (1920) 30 cópias
Swiss Family Manhattan (1932) 30 cópias
Songs for a Little House (1917) 29 cópias
Pleased To Meet You (1927) 27 cópias
Kathleen (1920) 26 cópias
Pandora Lifts the Lid (1924) 25 cópias
Tales From a Rolltop Desk (2016) 23 cópias
The Arrow (1927) 21 cópias
In the Sweet Dry and Dry (2009) 21 cópias
Rudolph and Amina (1931) 20 cópias
Seacoast of Bohemia (1929) 20 cópias
The Powder of Sympathy (1923) 19 cópias
Essays (1928) 16 cópias
Off the Deep End (1929) 15 cópias
Streamlines (1936) 14 cópias
Inward Ho! (1923) 14 cópias
History of an autumn (1939) 14 cópias
The Ironing Board (1949) 14 cópias
Gentlemen's Relish (1955) 13 cópias
44 Essays (1925) 13 cópias
Notes on Bermuda 13 cópias
The Rocking Horse (2004) 12 cópias
Internal Revenue (1933) 12 cópias
Parsons' pleasure (2005) 11 cópias
Poems (1936) 10 cópias
Mandarin in Manhattan. (1933) 10 cópias
Religio Journalistici (2011) 9 cópias
One Act Plays 9 cópias
Hide and seek 9 cópias
Morley's Magnum (1935) 9 cópias
The Eight Sin 8 cópias
Preface to "Bartlett" (1937) 8 cópias
Letters of Askance (1939) 7 cópias
Morleys Variety (1944) 6 cópias
The palette knife (1929) 5 cópias
Outward bound 5 cópias
Toulemonde 5 cópias
Conrad and the Reporters (1923) 5 cópias
Murder with a Difference (1946) 4 cópias
On the nose 4 cópias
A Letter to Leonora (1928) 4 cópias
Two fables 4 cópias
Good theatre 4 cópias
Goodbye to Spring. (1937) 4 cópias
Kitty 3 cópias
The Last Pipe 3 cópias
Christmas Eve 3 cópias
The Story of Ginger Cubes (2014) 3 cópias
Kathleen, pp. 1-171 (2015) 3 cópias
Goudiamus igitur 2 cópias
Poscimur 2 cópias
[Note card] 2 cópias
Trade winds 2 cópias
Paumanok 2 cópias
La macchina da scrivere (1996) 2 cópias
Jan Struther's Mrs. Miniver (1942) 2 cópias
A golden string 2 cópias
Christmas cards 2 cópias
Modern Essays for schools (1921) 2 cópias
Lidská bytost 2 cópias
The Fifth Seal 1 exemplar(es)
Garridebean games 1 exemplar(es)
The Smart set anthology 1 exemplar(es)
The Week-end library 1 exemplar(es)
Lucky Dio 1 exemplar(es)
Purely Original 1 exemplar(es)
A Hymn for America 1 exemplar(es)
A Conversation by Mail 1 exemplar(es)
Foggy Bottom 1 exemplar(es)
Unpublished Epigrams 1 exemplar(es)
Christopher Morley 1 exemplar(es)
East of Eden 1 exemplar(es)
Geladen Atmosfeer 1 exemplar(es)
Ben Abramson, Bookseller 1 exemplar(es)
The Century 1 exemplar(es)
On visiting bookshops 1 exemplar(es)
Kinder im Traum; Roman 1 exemplar(es)
Check 1 exemplar(es)
Sherlock Holmes Returns 1 exemplar(es)
Virtigo 1 exemplar(es)
Around the clock 1 exemplar(es)
El caballo de Troya 1 exemplar(es)
Baedeker Fibbed 1 exemplar(es)
Quatre Morceaux 1 exemplar(es)
Red Plush by Guy McCrone 1 exemplar(es)
Jerry's Back Room 1 exemplar(es)
Notes with a Yellow Pen 1 exemplar(es)
Tuono a sinistra 1 exemplar(es)
One of the Family 1 exemplar(es)
The Claque quacks 1 exemplar(es)
Cavallo di Troia, Il 1 exemplar(es)
The Week-End Library 1 exemplar(es)
The Blue & the Gray Or War is Hell (1930) 1 exemplar(es)
Old Mole 1 exemplar(es)
Powders of Sympathy 1 exemplar(es)
Expense report 1 exemplar(es)
Trojan Horse ad 1 exemplar(es)
Paumonok archive 1 exemplar(es)
Reversible Sonnet 1 exemplar(es)
For Goodness' Sake 1 exemplar(es)
Saki 1 exemplar(es)
On Ben Abramson 1 exemplar(es)
Manners Makyth the Man 1 exemplar(es)
Kitty Foyle Archive 1 exemplar(es)
Autograph 1 exemplar(es)
Confessions of a Smoker 1 exemplar(es)
Fluctuat nec Mergitur 1 exemplar(es)
Gilbert and Sullivan 1 exemplar(es)
Escape by Ethel Vance 1 exemplar(es)
Parnassus at Home 1 exemplar(es)
Oxford Yarns 1 exemplar(es)
Bran Gems recipe 1 exemplar(es)
A song about Cider 1 exemplar(es)
March 25, 1930 1 exemplar(es)
17 Heriot Row 1 exemplar(es)
Pulling Seaweed 1 exemplar(es)
Bifurcation, 7pp. Amss 1 exemplar(es)
Dandy Dandelion 1 exemplar(es)
Barns 1 exemplar(es)
To the Little House 1 exemplar(es)
To His Executors 1 exemplar(es)
Thomas Bird Mosher 1 exemplar(es)
Te Deum Laudanum 1 exemplar(es)
A Salute to Christmas 1 exemplar(es)
Animal Crackers 1 exemplar(es)
The Foundry 1 exemplar(es)
Excerpt from Human Being 1 exemplar(es)
The Black Beetles 1 exemplar(es)
When We Were Parted 1 exemplar(es)
Heywood 1 exemplar(es)
Surprise Package 1 exemplar(es)
Motto to Hang on a Wall 1 exemplar(es)
Verloren, Verloren 1 exemplar(es)
Washing the dishes 1 exemplar(es)
Two sonnets 1 exemplar(es)
Traffic 1 exemplar(es)
Pessimism 1 exemplar(es)
Parnassus on Wheels (Volume 1) (2017) 1 exemplar(es)
The Unmentionable 1 exemplar(es)
Floating Particles 1 exemplar(es)
Bartender's Moustache 1 exemplar(es)
This Book Belongs to 1 exemplar(es)
LETTER TO LEONORA 1 exemplar(es)
The Red and White Girdle 1 exemplar(es)
REALLY, MY DEAR... 1 exemplar(es)
Barometers & bookshops 1 exemplar(es)
Lincoln's doctor's dog 1 exemplar(es)
Esoterica viniana 1 exemplar(es)
Epigrams in a cellar 1 exemplar(es)
Deus haec Otia Fecit 1 exemplar(es)
A Christmas salute 1 exemplar(es)
Madonna and Child 1 exemplar(es)
Hamlet 1 exemplar(es)
The Owl 1 exemplar(es)
Bright Cages publicity 1 exemplar(es)
Behave Yourself 1 exemplar(es)
Hoboken Nights 1 exemplar(es)
Abandoned Husbands 1 exemplar(es)
Kitty Foyle Lobby Card 1 exemplar(es)
No turn on Red! 1 exemplar(es)
One Night Stand 1 exemplar(es)
New York One Way 1 exemplar(es)
Miss Libby 1 exemplar(es)
Kathleen, film script 1 exemplar(es)
Unique 1 exemplar(es)
A Goodbye 1 exemplar(es)
Soft Shoulders poster 1 exemplar(es)
Set of six photographs 1 exemplar(es)
Bookmark 1 exemplar(es)
An essay on Transylvania 1 exemplar(es)
Match books 1 exemplar(es)
Autographed slip 1 exemplar(es)
This is not Rex Stout 1 exemplar(es)
Tusitala, Outward Bound 1 exemplar(es)
Strong sensual germs 1 exemplar(es)
Ode to the Comp. Room 1 exemplar(es)
The Havefordian 1 exemplar(es)
A Little Back Room 1 exemplar(es)
The case of Bouck White 1 exemplar(es)
The Blue and the Gray 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1589) — Prefácio, algumas edições31,575 cópias
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories (1887) — Prefácio, algumas edições12,506 cópias
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) — Introdução, algumas edições7,626 cópias
Familiar Quotations (1855) — Editor, algumas edições4,089 cópias
The Essays (1597) — Introdução, algumas edições2,244 cópias
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 (1950) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,466 cópias
The Short Stories of Saki (1930) — Introdução — 1,437 cópias
The Lottery (1948) — Posfácio, algumas edições1,151 cópias
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824) — Prefácio, algumas edições424 cópias
Literary England: Photographs of Places Made Memorable in English Literature (1943) — Preface, algumas edições296 cópias
The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories (1945) — Contribuinte — 280 cópias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Contribuinte — 275 cópias
The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence (1968) — Contribuinte — 267 cópias
A Daughter of the Samurai (1925) — Introdução, algumas edições196 cópias
The Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1953) — Editor, algumas edições156 cópias
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Contribuinte — 137 cópias
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (2015) — Contribuinte — 137 cópias
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (2003) — Contribuinte — 134 cópias
Poems of Early Childhood (Childcraft) (1923) — Contribuinte — 118 cópias
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Prefácio — 114 cópias
221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes (1940) — Contribuinte — 92 cópias
Storytelling and Other Poems (1949) — Contribuinte — 90 cópias
Best in Children's Books 21 (1959) 84 cópias
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Contribuinte — 71 cópias
American Christmas Stories (2021) — Contribuinte — 59 cópias
Prose and Poetry for Appreciation (1934) — Contribuinte — 44 cópias
The Best of Don Marquis (1944) — Introdução — 37 cópias
Essays Old and New (1934) 35 cópias
The Portable Murder Book (1945) — Contribuinte — 31 cópias
Strange and Fantastic Stories (1946) — Introdução — 31 cópias
An American Omnibus (1933) — Contribuinte — 31 cópias
Kitty Foyle [1940 film] (1939) — Original novel — 22 cópias
A Round-Table in Poictesme: A Symposium (1924) — Contribuinte — 21 cópias
Freebie and the Bean [1974 film] (2011) — Actor — 10 cópias
Parodies on Walt Whitman (1970) — Introdução — 8 cópias
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, the A. Conan Doyle Memorial Edition, Volume I (1930) — Prefácio, algumas edições7 cópias
1935 Essay Annual — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
The Word Lives On: A Treasury of Spiritual Fiction (1951) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2017) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Nelson Doubleday, 1889-1949 (1949) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
The Best Short Short Stories from Collier's (1948) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
The Big Vacation Book for Girls — Contribuinte, algumas edições2 cópias
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Morley, Christopher Darlington
Data de nascimento
1890-05-05
Data de falecimento
1957-03-28
Local de enterro
Roslyn Cemetery, Roslyn, New York, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA (birth)
Local de nascimento
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
Local de falecimento
Roslyn Heights, Long Island, New York, USA
Locais de residência
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
New York, New York, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Roslyn Heights, New York, USA
Educação
Haverford College
Oxford University (New College)
Ocupação
journalist
novelist
essayist
poet
columnist
Relacionamentos
Morley, Felix (brother)
Morley, F. V. (brother)
Morley, Frank (father)
Organizações
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1936)
Baker Street Irregulars (founder)
Book-of-the-Month Club (judge)
New York Post (New York Evening Post)
Pequena biografia
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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This little novella (with a main character named Helen!) was the perfect nugget to finish off my 2023 reading.

At just 142 pages I could have finished in one sitting had I started earlier in the day.

This is a sweet and funny story about a traveling bookseller, the woman he sells his portable bookshop to, and the many zany adventures they have in their first few days together.

Absolutely charming.
 
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hmonkeyreads | outras 108 resenhas | Jan 25, 2024 |
Clean story with twists and turns. I liked the characters. I got lost in all the book references.
 
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LuLibro | outras 94 resenhas | Jan 22, 2024 |
The story itself is nothing impressive. What is interesting is Roger Mifflin's philosophy on books. His discussion with other characters is still relevant to books and librarianship today.
 
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wvlibrarydude | outras 94 resenhas | Jan 14, 2024 |
I didn't like this one nearly as much as Parnassus, but I think a big part of that was because I had expectations of it being different than it was. Parnassus was so sweet and quaint and self-reflective. This is a different kind of story entirely, and I think it just took me awhile to realize that. I think I'll try it again in the future when I've not just finished reading its prequel and might find I like it better.

Normally I'd give 2 stars to something I disliked so much, but this was very well-written so I'll add a star for that!… (mais)
 
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classyhomemaker | outras 94 resenhas | Dec 11, 2023 |

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Obras
586
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Membros
8,884
Popularidade
#2,702
Avaliação
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Resenhas
245
ISBNs
418
Idiomas
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