John Kendrick Bangs

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Essays & Short Works

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John Kendrick Bangs - From Pillar to Post

I could not let these random notes of a delightful experience go forth into the world without expressing in some way my deep appreciation of the valued services rendered me in my ten years of platform work by my...

Jeff Moon and 5 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

452

John Kendrick Bangs - Toppleton's Client

A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. Knowing Jr....

Cate Barratt 5 hours 4 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

477

John Kendrick Bangs - Over The Plum Pudding

Great Caesar’s ghost and shades of A Christmas Carol! Stories – some ghostly, some Christmas, some humorous, some all three — twelve of them by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early...

David Wales 4 hours 30 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

513

John Kendrick Bangs - Water Ghost and Others

Eight ghost stories by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 4 hours 24 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

454

John Kendrick Bangs - Idiot at home

The Idiot returns along with Ms Idiot and their two children, Mollie and Tommy, move into their first house in suburbia. What follows are encounters with his companions from his boarding house days, Coffee and...

John Kellow and 6 more 4 hours 3 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

451

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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Action & Adventure Fiction

434

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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Fantastic Fiction

501

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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Fantastic Fiction

437

John Kendrick Bangs - Mr Munchausen

The author has discovered for us in this volume the present stopping place of that famous raconteur of dear comic memory, the late Hieronymous Carl Friederich, sometime Baron Munchausen, and he transmits to us some...

Kevin Green 3 hours 4 minutes

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General Fiction

461

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

471

John Kendrick Bangs - Jack and the Check Book

Bangs is in top form in his version of this small collection of timeless fairy tales. If you don't immediately recognize Jack and the Check Book, Puss, the Promoter, and the Golden Fleece, don't worry, you soon will....

Cate Barratt 2 hours 55 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - House-Boat on the Styx

The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of its publication) has gone to Styx. This does not appear to be the...

Zachary Brewster-Geisz and 5 more 2 hours 54 minutes

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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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