John Kendrick Bangs

Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile handmade reproduction) of the original edition of 1899 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Illustrated with 27 pictures." Coffee and Repartee" written by John Kendrick Bangs is the story of what happens when men who think themselves smarter than they are face off against a man who's smarter than he seems. Set entirely in the dining room of a cheap boarding house, Coffee and Repartee chronicles the clever, funny, competitive table talk of the borders.

Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile handmade reproduction) of the original edition of 1895 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Illustrated with 8 pictures. A House-Boat on the Styx is a book written by John Kendrick Bangs and published in 1895. The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up to the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of its publication) has gone to Styx, the river that circles the underworld. The book begins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx being startled-and annoyed-by the arrival of a houseboat on the Styx. At first afraid that the boat will put him out of business, he later finds out that he is actually to be appointed the boat's janitor. What follows are eleven more stories (for a total of twelve) which are set on the house boat. There is no central theme, and the purpose of the book appears to be as a literary thought experiment to see what would happen if various famous dead people were put in the same room with each other. Each chapter is a short story featuring various souls from history and mythology. In the twelfth chapter the house boat disappears, leading into the sequel, Pursuit of the House-Boat. The book was among the best selling books in the United States in 1896. Chapter: (1) Charon makes a discovery, (2) A disputed Authorship, (3) Washington gives a dinner, (4) Hamlet makes a suggestion, (5) The House committee discuss the Poets, (6) Some theories, Darwinian and otherwise, (7) A discussion as to Ladies' Day, (8) A discontented shade, (9) As to cookery and sculpture, (10) Story-Tellers' Night, (11) As to Saurians and other, (12) The House-Boat disappears

Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1899 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. "Cobwebs from a Library Corner" is a John Kendrick Bangs "Fan-Special" from her publishing house Harper & Brothers. Page: - Content: BOOKISH 01A Pessimistic View 03The Master's Pen-A Confession 05Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast) 08Ideas for Sale 11The Author's Boomerang 12To an Egotistical Biographer 13No Copyright Needed 14Ingredients of Greatness 15A Common Favorite 17Their Pens 18An Unsolved Problem 19The Bibliophile's Threat 20My Treasures 21A Poet's Fad 22The Poet Undone 23A Waning Muse 24Modesty 25My Lord the Book 26The Bibliomiser 27The "Collector" 28A Reader 29Fate 30A Pleasing Thought 31Books vs. "Books," by a Bibliomaniac 33A Confession 35The Edition de Looks _______________________ WISE AND OTHERWISE 41Napolini's Error 45My Color 47Contentment in Nature 49The Heroic Gunner 52The Pathetic Tale of the Caddy Boy 56Garrulous Wisdom 58The Perjury of a Rejected Lover 59Maid of Culture 60Not Perfect 61A City Dweller's Wish 62Where are They? 64Memories 65A Sad State 66Ad Astra per Otium. 67Consolation 68Satisfaction on Reading "Not One Dissatisfied," by Walt Whitman 70To a Withered Rose 71The Worst of Enemies 72 Jokes of the Night 75An Autumnal Romance 76The Country in July 78May 30, 1893 80The Curse of Wealth 83The Rhyme of the Ancient Populist 86One of the Nameless Great 87In February Days 89A Change of Ambition 91Message from Mahatmas 95The Gold-seekers 98Ode to a Politician 101Some are Amateurs