Little runt peddler sell his business which consists of a wagon full of old books to a heavy set farm woman and they go gallivanting around the country side trying to sell culture to farmers, while he educates her on literature, while her meddling bother tries to stop them and the hoboes do what hoboes do. No plot, unless you think Don Quixote running around the country on a quest, making a fool of his self for no known reason, is a plot. No conflict, except the part with the bloody nose. No suspense, except when the hoboes get a gun. No villains, except a vindictive old brother who doesn’t think his sister is capable of thinking for herself and so he has to keep meddling into her affairs and a couple of worthless hoboes. No heroes, just a little red-headed runt of a book peddler trying to make a profit, selling books to farmers. This book has nothin’, no heroines, just a fat old country woman who doesn’t want to bake bread anymore. I'm going to write a bookĪbout 'Literature Among the Farmers,' and want to settle down with Literature into the countryside as ever old Doc Eliot did with hisįive-foot shelf.
I've covered the territory fromįlorida to Maine and I reckon I've injected about as much good That he had the bright eyes of a fanatic-"I've been cruising with "Well, see here," said the little man-and about this time I noticed I noticed poetry, essays, novels, cook books, juveniles, schoolīooks, Bibles, and what not-all jumbled together. He certainly had a pretty miscellaneous collection. Not literary, as I said before, but I'm human enough to likeĪ good book, and my eye was running along those shelves of hisĪs I spoke. Kate's Book BlogFollowed by The Haunted Bookshop. In the travelling book trade, she finds it. But it soon becomes apparent that the seemingly settled Helen is out for a bit of adventure.
She rationalizes that she's simply trying to prevent Andrew from doing the same and disappearing from the farm once and for all. In an uncharacteristically impulsive moment, Helen makes the purchase herself. He's seeking a buyer for the Parnassus and he thought that Andrew would be a likely candidate. He's been travelling around the countryside evangelizing about literature but he's ready to pack it in to write a book of his own. Roger Mifflin rolls into the farmyard in the ''Parnassus on Wheels'' of the title: a travelling bookshop. Helen takes pride in her domestic accomplishments but she doesn't like being saddled with all the work and she doesn't like being taken for granted. Andrew is a literary man, however, and since his books have become successful, his attention to the farm and his appreciation of the work that Helen does have diminished considerably. Our heroine is Helen McGill, a thirty-nine year old spinster who assists her brother Andrew in the running of his New England farm.
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