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John Kendrick Bangs, Best Novels
John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. Bangs contributed many articles and poems to the magazine between 1884 and 1888. During this period, Bangs published his first books. In this book: A House-Boat on the Styx R. Holmes & Co. The Enchanted Typewriter The Inventions of the Idiot
Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica
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Inscription to John Kendrick Bangs
They say I have a sense of humour. I know you have so pray read some of yourself into my lines.
The Time Shop
Bobby takes a journey to the Time Shop, where goods are purchased with days, hours, and minutes, and buys a gift for his mother after learning an important lesson from Procrastination, the thief of time.
Ghosts I Have Met
Book Excerpt: ...rvice to you," the Awful Thing replied, smiling at me so yellowly that I almost wished the author of the _Blue-Button of Cowardice_ could have seen it."It's very good of you," I put in."Not at all," replied the Thing; "you are the only man I know who doesn't think it necessary to prevaricate about ghosts every time he gets an order for a Christmas story. There have been more lies told about us than about any other class of things in existence, and we are getting a trifle tired of it. We may have lost our corporeal existence, but some of our sensitiveness still remains.""Well," said I, rising and lighting the gas-logs--for I was on the very verge of congealment--"I am sure I am pleased if you like my stories.""Oh, as for that, I don't think much of them," said the Awful Thing, with a purple display of candor which amused me, although I cannot say that I relished it; "but you never lie about us. You are not at all interesting, but you are truthful, and we spooks hate libellers. Just because one...
The Enchanted Typewriter
Reproduction of the original.
The Dreamers: A Club
"The Dreamers: A Club" by John Kendrick Bangs. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
A Little Book Of Christmas
" HETHERINGTON wasn't half a bad sort of a fellow, but he had his peculiarities, most of which were the natural defects of a lack of imagination. He didn't believe in ghosts, or Santa Claus, or any of the thousands of other things that he hadn't seen with his own eyes, and as he walked home that rather chilly afternoon just before Christmas and found nearly every corner of the highway decorated with bogus Saints, wearing the shoddy regalia of Kris- Kringle, the sight made him a trifle irritable. He had had a fairly good luncheon that day, one indeed that ought to have mellowed his disposition materially, but which somehow or other had not so resulted. In fact, Hetherington was in a state of raspy petulance that boded ill for his digestion, and when he had reached the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, the constant iteration and reiteration of these shivering figures of the god of the Yule had got on his nerves to such an extent as to make him aggressively quarrelsome...."
