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A House-Boat on the Styx

by John Kendrick Bangs

A House-Boat on the Styx is a fantasy novel written by John Kendrick Bangs in 1895. The original full title was A House-Boat on the Styx: Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades. The novel was first published by Harper Brothers in 1896 with illustrations by Peter Newell.

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English

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English

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1895

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John Kendrick Bangs

United States

John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist.    He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father Francis N. Bangs was a lawyer in New York...

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