A House-Boat on the Styx

John Kendrick Bangs

84 pages
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On a club boat moored on the river Styx, the ghosts of Shakespeare, Socrates, Napoleon and Dr. Johnson argue, gossip and play pranks for all eternity. The 1895 comedy that gave its name to a whole genre of afterlife fantasy.

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