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American writer John Kendrick Bangs was an innovator who removed the ponderous solemnity from the typical ghost story and replaced it with his own trademark wit and imagination. The Enchanted Typewriter is part of Bangs' Associated Shades series, which features famous people who have passed on to the afterlife. In these stories, the famed 18th-century writer James Boswell has been appointed to the role of editor for the newspaper of Hades, so he supplies all the latest news on the show more underworld's well-known denizens.. show less
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This is in the Houseboat on the Styx series --I believe third after the original Houseboat and Pursuit of the Houseboat. I read it long ago and recall it as being amusing but episodic. It does include a Sherlock Holmes piece
Not nearly as good as the first two houseboat novels.
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- Original publication date
- 1899
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.4 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English Later 19th Century 1861-1900
- LCC
- PZ3 .B224 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- 2
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- English, Spanish
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 50
- ASINs
- 4
