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If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hoped you may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkable bookshop. This bookshop, which does business under the unusual name "Parnassus at Home," is housed in one of the comfortable old brown-stone dwellings which have been the joy of several generations of plumbers and cockroaches. The owner of the business has been at pains to remodel the house to make it a more suitable shrine for his trade, which deals entirely in second-hand volumes. There is no second-hand bookshop in the world more worthy of respect. It was about six o'clock of a cold November evening, with gusts of rain splattering upon the pavement, when a young man proceeded uncertainly along Gissing Street, stopping now and then to look at shop windows as though doubtful of his way. At the warm and shining face of a French rotisserie he halted to compare the number enamelled on the transom with a memorandum in his hand. Then he pushed on for a few minutes, at last reaching the address he sought. Over the entrance his eye was caught by the sign:
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The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
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- Titel
- The Haunted Bookshop
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Christopher Morley
- Verlag
- LUSHENA BOOKS INC
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 184
- ISBN13
- 9781631826313
- Reihe
- Parnassus-Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Historische Romane, Krimi, Liebe, Klassiker, USA, New York, Spionage, Erster Weltkrieg (1914–1918), Spionageromane, Über Bücher, Lesen, Buchhandlungen, Brooklyn
- Bewertung
- 3,35 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hoped you may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkable bookshop. This bookshop, which does business under the unusual name "Parnassus at Home," is housed in one of the comfortable old brown-stone dwellings which have been the joy of several generations of plumbers and cockroaches. The owner of the business has been at pains to remodel the house to make it a more suitable shrine for his trade, which deals entirely in second-hand volumes. There is no second-hand bookshop in the world more worthy of respect. It was about six o'clock of a cold November evening, with gusts of rain splattering upon the pavement, when a young man proceeded uncertainly along Gissing Street, stopping now and then to look at shop windows as though doubtful of his way. At the warm and shining face of a French rotisserie he halted to compare the number enamelled on the transom with a memorandum in his hand. Then he pushed on for a few minutes, at last reaching the address he sought. Over the entrance his eye was caught by the sign: