American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet; best known for his 1939 novel Kitty Foyle, which was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. Another well-known work is Thunder on the Left (1925)
Christopher Morley
Works edit
(Partial list)
- Mince Pie: Adventures on the sunny side of Grub Street (1919) illus, Walter Jack Duncan (sketches) (transcription project)
- Tales from a Rolltop Desk (1921) (transcription project)
- In the Sweet Dry and Dry (with Bart Haley, 1919) illus, Gluyas Williams (transcription project)
Fiction edit
- Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
- The Haunted Bookshop (1919) (sequel to PoW) (No scan) PG
- In the Sweet Dry and Dry (with Bart Haley, 1919) illus, Gluyas Williams PG
- Kathleen (1920) IA PG
- Tales from a Rolltop Desk (1921) PG
- Plum Pudding, of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned (1921) (sketches) IA PG
- The Story of Ginger Cubes (1922) (novelette) illus, W. Gorman
- Where the Blue Begins (1922) (satire/whimsy)
- Rehearsal: A comedy in one act (1922) IA
- Thursday Evening (1922) IA PG
- Pandora Lifts the Lid (1924) with Don Marquis
- Thunder on the Left (1925)
- Pleased to Meet You (1927)
- I Know a Secret (1927)
Non-fiction edit
- Mince Pie: Adventures on the sunny side of Grub Street (1919) illus by Walter Jack Duncan (sketches) PG
- Pipefuls (1920) illus by Walter Jack Duncan (humorous essays) IA PG
- Making Books and Magazines: a commentary on the motion picture film taken at the Country Life Press (1916) IA
- Shandygaff (1918) [1] (essays) (transcription project)
- Travels in Philadelphia, with drawings by Frank H. Taylor (1920) (sketches)
- Modern Essays (1921) IA PG
- The Powder of Sympathy (1923) illus Walter Jack Duncan (collection of humorous essays) IA
- Religio Journalistici (1924) IA
- Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley (1925)
- Old Loopy: A Love Letter for Chicago (1937) [not renewed] IA
Poetry edit
- The Eighth Sin (as C. D. Morley, 1912)
- Songs for a Little House (1917)
- The Rocking Horse (1919) IA
- Hide and Seek (Morley) (1920) IA
- Chimneysmoke (1921) (Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty) IA PG
- Translations from the Chinese (1922) (burlesque poems)
- Parson's Pleasure (1923)
Anthologized
- "To the Oxford Men in the War" from A Treasury of War Poetry, ... 1914-1919 (1917)
- "The Soldier" from Patriotic pieces from the Great War (1918)
Works from magazines edit
- "The Haunting Beauty of Strynchine" (1916 Aug, Smart Set) (parody, humor)
- "An Apology for Boccaccio" (1916 Nov, Smart Set) (essay)
- "Continuity" (1922, Scribner's Magazine), short story
- "Baedeker Fibbed" (1925, Harper's Magazine) (humor)
- "Thunder on the Left" (1925, Harper's Magazine) (4-part novel)
- Poems
- "Do You Ever Feel Like God?" (1917 Dec, Smart Set)
- "O. Henry—Apothecary" (1923, Harper's Magazine)
- "To a Foreigner" (1923, Harper's Magazine)
- "Song for a Little House" (1925 May, American Girl)
- "The Arrow" (1925 Jan, Feb, Harper's Magazine) (2-part novelette)
Other edit
- The foreword of Explorers of the Dawn (1922) by Mazo de la Roche
- One Act Plays (1924)
Works about Morley edit
- A Bibliography of Christopher Morley (1935) by Alfred P. Lee (transcription project)
Dedicated to Morley edit
- Possession (1923) by Mazo de la Roche
Notes edit
PG Ebooks at Project Gutenberg (Author:Christopher Morley)
- ↑ Full title: Shandygaff; a number of most agreeable inquirendoes upon life and letters, interspersed with short stories and skitts, the whole most diverting to the reader; accompanied also by some notes for teachers whereby the booke may be made usefull in class-room or for private improvement
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.
This author died in 1957, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 66 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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