| The Pursuit of the Houseboat by John Kendrick Bangs, Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology Contributor(s): Bangs, John Kendrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606640046 ISBN-13: 9781606640043 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Sherlock Holmes -- a fictional character -- was never alive, at least in the usual sense . . . Yet here he is to be found, engaging in sharp-witted conversation with the shades of various and sundry famous souls of our historic past -- and trying to prove that a certain cigar fragment does, indeed, belong to Captain Kidd -- that shady shade of Hades who has absconded with the Houseboat of the Associated Shades! First published in 1897, "The Pursuit of the Houseboat" continues the light-hearted exploration of the hobnobbings of the famous (and the dead) in the Afterlife . . . first enjoyed by readers in John Kendrick Bangs' 1895 novel "A Houseboat on the Styx." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 9" (0.44 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bangs, John Kendrick: - "John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father Francis Nehemiah Bangs was a lawyer in New York City, as was his brother, Francis S. Bangs. He went to Columbia College from 1880 to 1883 where he became editor of Columbia's literary magazine, Acta Columbia and contributed short anonymous pieces to humor magazines. After graduation in 1883 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in Political Science, Bangs entered Columbia Law School but left in 1884 to become Associate Editor of Life under Edward S. Martin. Bangs contributed many articles and poems to the magazine between 1884 and 1888. During this period, Bangs published his first books" |