Warren bluhm jul 2021 (2 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'If your mind needs phosphorus, try 'Trivia, ' by Logan Pearsall Smith. - Roger Mifflin, proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop'It would be extravagant to claim that Pearsall Smith's Trivia, the remarkable little book from which these miniature essays are extracted, is well known: it is too daintily, fragile and absurd and sophisticated to appeal to a very large public. But it has a cohort of its own devotees and fanatics, and since its publication in 1917 it has become a sort of password in a secret brotherhood,' wrote Christopher Morley in his book Modern Essays about this hard-to-categorize collection of aphorisms that, through its title, introduced a word into the English language. Smith's aphorisms are anything but trivial; alternately whimsical and insightful and heartbreaking, they are popcorn-sized glimpses into the human condition.The third in a new collection of classic books inspired by Roger Mifflin, owner of Morley's Haunted Bookshop, Trivia is an early 20th century gem.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - If you're here for a ghost story, you may be disappointed.It's a romance, it's a mystery, it's full of intrigue, it's a celebration of the magic of books, but (spoiler alert ) you're not going to find any supernatural beings on these pages. If that disappoints you, well, this book may not be for you.But if you love a good book, you're about to meet a kindred spirit. His name is Roger Mifflin, and he can't stop talking about how books can save your life, save your soul and probably save the world.Set in the aftermath of The Great War, still filled with the hope it was the last war, the 'war to end all wars,' Christopher Morley gives us Roger Mifflin, a pistol of a fellow whose life mission is to put the right books into the right hands, with a firm belief that there's a 'right book' for every pair of hands that ever lived.Part mystery thriller, part romance, and all fun for the book lover, The Haunted Bookshop is one of the great forgotten classics of early 20th century literature and the keystone of The Roger Mifflin Collection. …