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A House-Boat on the Styx

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Published 1895 Kessinger Publishing, LLC 6 views
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1110857284, 9781110857289, 1110238134, 9781110238132
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John Kendrick Bangs

John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American writer, humorist, editor and satirist.

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CHARON, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and an he paddled idly on he chuckled mildly to himself as he thought of the monopoly to ferriage which in the course of years he had managed to build up...

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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.

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