House-Boat on the Styx.
Title:
House-Boat on the Styx.
Author:
Bangs, John Kendrick.
ISBN:
9781776510764
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (151 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Chapter I - Charon Makes a Discovery -- Chapter II - A Disputed Authorship -- Chapter III - Washington Gives a Dinner -- Chapter IV - Hamlet Makes a Suggestion -- Chapter V - The House Committee Discuss the Poets -- Chapter VI - Some Theories, Darwinian and Otherwise -- Chapter VII - A Discussion as to Ladies' Day -- Chapter VIII - A Discontented Shade -- Chapter IX - As to Cookery and Sculpture -- Chapter X - Story-Tellers' Night -- Chapter XI - As to Saurians and Others -- Chapter XII - The House-Boat Disappears.
Abstract:
The souls of the dead must cross the Styx, to pass into a Hades-like afterworld. In the first of the twelve stories compiled in A House-Boat on the Styx, the man who ferries the souls across sees a houseboat floating downriver and fears for his livelihood. He is appointed janitor on the boat, where the remaining stories take place between characters from history and mythology.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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