in a fairly recent post, I gave a brief overview of Project Gutenberg, an online resource which offers free e-book versions of publications in the public domain. In this post, I begin a series based on selecting specific items to be found and read for free at Project Gutenberg.
Readers know author Christopher Morley best for Parnassus on Wheels and its sequel The Haunted Bookshop. Morley was prolific, however, and one volume I didn't know till I spotted it on the PG site was this one:
Why the title? Check out some of Morley's author photos.
The online e-book version of Pipefuls is found HERE.
As a side note, Christopher Morley's daughter, Louise Cachane, did a lot of interesting stuff.
These included producing children's programming for the BBC in the early 1950s, doing some work with Eleanor Roosevelt, and writing a book of her own for young readers.
The Wikipedia entry for Louise Cachane is found HERE
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