Bangs, John Kendrick,  1862-1922 <br/><br/>
A House-Boat on the Styx 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_House-Boat_on_the_Styx  Release date is 2001-05-01 
<br/><br/>Transcribed from the 1902 Harper and Brothers edition by David Price  Transcribed from the 1902 Harper and Brothers edition by David Price 
<br/><br/> "A House-Boat on the Styx" by John Kendrick Bangs is a fantasy novel written in 1895. When a mysterious houseboat arrives on the river Styx, it becomes a meeting place for history's most famous dead souls. Charon, the ancient ferryman, finds himself demoted to janitor as legendary figures from history and mythology gather aboard. Each chapter presents a new encounter, mixing historical personalities in unexpected conversations—though questions about who really wrote Shakespeare's plays keep arising. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Houseboats -- Fiction Dead -- Fiction Household employees -- Fiction 
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