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A House-Boat on the Styx

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A House-Boat on the Styx
by John Kendrick Bangs

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 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 conventional Hell described by Dante in The Inferno, but rather the Hades described in Greek myth (both of which had Styxes): a universal collecting pot for dead souls, regardless of their deeds in life.

— Excerpted from A House-Boat on the Styx on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

The book is sequeled by Pursuit of the House-Boat.

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Scan of the 1895 cover.

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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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