John Kendrick Bangs

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General Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Mrs. Raffles

Mrs. Raffles, widow of the now deceased A. J. Raffles (who was the gentleman thief pursued at one time by Sherlock Holmes), continues the family legacy of crime—but this time in America. These stories are narrated by...

ToddHW and 3 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

475

John Kendrick Bangs - Idiot

The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their...

Gregg Margarite 2 hours 17 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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John Kendrick Bangs - Autobiography of Methuselah

A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorded history. (Introduction by Matthew Reece)

Matthew Reece 2 hours 27 minutes

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Inventions of the Idiot (dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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John Kendrick Bangs - Inventions of the Idiot (dramatic reading)

«It was before the Idiot's marriage, and in the days when he was nothing more than a plain boarder in Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog's High-class Home for Single Gentlemen, that he put what the School-master termed his...

2 hours 38 minutes

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General Fiction

436

John Kendrick Bangs - Coffee and Repartee

First released in 1893, Coffee And Repartee is a collection of breakfast chats at a gentlemans boarding house run by a Mrs. Smithers. Here these fellows repeatedly face questions and proclaimations of an inhabitant...

Daryl Wor 1 hour 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - R. Holmes and Co.

Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief pursued by Sherlock Holmes many years earlier. This...

ToddHW and 1 more 3 hours 12 minutes

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Children's Fiction

440

John Kendrick Bangs - Little Book of Christmas

Summary: Four short Christmas stories, a bit sentimental, but still affecting and worthwhile. Plus Four Christmas verses. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 2 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

473

John Kendrick Bangs - Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others

New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I...

Cate Barratt 3 hours 3 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Genial Idiot

John Kendrick Bangs once again takes us on a journey with the loveable, but somewhat self-opinionated and irritating Mr Idiot. (Summary by Michele Eaton)

Nigel Boydell and 6 more 3 hours 45 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

508

John Kendrick Bangs - Pursuit of the House-Boat

This sequel to Bangs' A House-Boat on the Styx continues the «thought-experiment» of bringing various historical and fictional figures together, detailing the adventures of the ladies of Hades after they are kidnapped...

Emma Joyce 3 hours 8 minutes

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Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream (version 2)

John Kendrick Bangs was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangasian Fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. (Wikipedia) Plot...

Lars Rolander 1 hour 56 minutes

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Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream

Humorous Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream

From Alice in Blunderland: «Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apiece--» «Mercy!» cried Alice, «Why, that is--that is terrible.» «It certainly is,» said...

Ruth Golding 1 hour 58 minutes

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New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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