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I have been reading books about books and bookstores lately and I have been a little disappointed. Disappointed until now. I read The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry and The Little Paris Bookshop. I think that the idea of books as medicine and booksellers as responsible for choosing the right book for the right customer started with Christopher Morley in 1919.

The Haunted Bookshop takes place in Brooklyn. Named Parnassus at Home, it is a second hand bookstore owned by Roger Mifflin and his wife Helen and their terrier Bock. The story opens with a visit from young Mr. Aubrey Gilbert, employee of the Grey-Matter Advertising Agency, come to sell Mr. Mifflin on the idea of paying for advertising. This idea is abhorrent to Mr. Mifflin. At the same time, he agrees to help a friend by hiring his daughter Titania to work at the store. Aubrey sees Titania and falls instantly in love. That is the romance. They mystery is the disappearance and reappearance of the book Carlyle's Oliver Cromwell. Mr. Gilbert becomes intrigued and with love clouding his judgement, he is convinced the Mifflin is up to something and that Titania is in danger. He goes to elaborate means to put the bookstore under surveillance, including renting a room in a boarding house across the street. There is some slap-stick comedy mixed in with the mystery and danger. A murder plot is uncovered, the book is recovered, and love prevails.

This is a thoroughly delightful book with bits of humor to boot. Though written in 1919, much of the social and political commentary is still relevant today. I may be wrong, but it seems like the plot and some of the character's traits in The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry borrow heavily from this book. In my opinion, The Haunted Bookshop was better written and the plot was much less transparent. This is what a book about bookstores should be!


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The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley Douglas Gorsline 9780760756287 Books Reviews

This is a book of its time, which is the early 20th century (publ. 1919). There's a little mystery, a little romance, and a lot of books---titles, quotes from, conversation about. If you have read "Parnassus on Wheels." you already know Roger Mifflin and his absolutely firm belief that booksellers rank right up there in importance with teachers, ministers and any other caretakers of civilization. The plot is slender, and the pace is rather like a stroll through Roger's bookstore. Morley's prose is a delight--graceful and evocative (O. Henry comes to mind, except that Morley is a bit less utilitarian and a bit more musical) and often funny. He's especially skilled at choosing the most apt adjectives that both sound good as well as fit into the cadence of his sentences. If you like books about books, books from another time, or good prose, you'll enjoy this.
What a fantastic find of a book! Written after WWI it is true to the times but yet, a book for all time if you're a book lover. Roger Mifflin, the owner and caretaker is an almost mythic character in his love of reading, learning and books. In his discussions of books to other characters you get an introduction to Literature and Philosophy (in capital letters). But this is not dry and pontificating or boring. The passion and love of the written word is beautifully captured. He describes a book "Here's one that I found a lot of meat in, streaked with philosophical gristle." which perfectly describes this book as well. Another quote also is telling "I want to give people an entirely new idea about bookshops... my conception of the bookstore as a power-house, a radiating place for truth and beauty. I insist books are not absolutely dead things they are as lively as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." As for the "haunted" part of the title he says, "That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it." Yet, if you think this is ONLY about books and second-hand book selling and love of reading (which wouldn't be a bad thing) there is so much more! It also includes a cracking mystery as the characters are forced to foil a mysterious plot that may have serious national consequences. Wonderful, exciting and all the satisfaction and satiation as a full Thanksgiving meal
One of the most surprising, delightful books I have ever read in my life. If you love books and bookshops and old fashioned romance and adventure and mystery and antiquarian anything, and oh, hot chocolate and poetic commiseration you've simply got to read this book and why, oh why has this book not been translated into film? It is so sparkling it's like champagne; so consoling it's like mulled wine (not that I ever had any, but I imagine that mulled wine could be consoling). And also, there is a heroic dog in it too. Read it on a rainy day, read it with sleet pelting on the bay windows of your brownstone apartment, read it in your public housing unit (I did) and it transported me like a dream. Merchant Ivory should have made this film. Please somebody lyrical, take it up. I want to see it on the silver screen. God bless you Christopher Morley...
I have been reading books about books and bookstores lately and I have been a little disappointed. Disappointed until now. I read The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry and The Little Paris Bookshop. I think that the idea of books as medicine and booksellers as responsible for choosing the right book for the right customer started with Christopher Morley in 1919.

The Haunted Bookshop takes place in Brooklyn. Named Parnassus at Home, it is a second hand bookstore owned by Roger Mifflin and his wife Helen and their terrier Bock. The story opens with a visit from young Mr. Aubrey Gilbert, employee of the Grey-Matter Advertising Agency, come to sell Mr. Mifflin on the idea of paying for advertising. This idea is abhorrent to Mr. Mifflin. At the same time, he agrees to help a friend by hiring his daughter Titania to work at the store. Aubrey sees Titania and falls instantly in love. That is the romance. They mystery is the disappearance and reappearance of the book Carlyle's Oliver Cromwell. Mr. Gilbert becomes intrigued and with love clouding his judgement, he is convinced the Mifflin is up to something and that Titania is in danger. He goes to elaborate means to put the bookstore under surveillance, including renting a room in a boarding house across the street. There is some slap-stick comedy mixed in with the mystery and danger. A murder plot is uncovered, the book is recovered, and love prevails.

This is a thoroughly delightful book with bits of humor to boot. Though written in 1919, much of the social and political commentary is still relevant today. I may be wrong, but it seems like the plot and some of the character's traits in The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry borrow heavily from this book. In my opinion, The Haunted Bookshop was better written and the plot was much less transparent. This is what a book about bookstores should be!