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The Pursuit of the House-Boat

by John Kendrick Bangs

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1897
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Read by Emma Joyce · 3 h 8 min · 12 parts

  1. 1: The Associated Shades Take Action

    15:01

  2. 2: The Stranger Unravels a Mystery and Reveals Himself

    20:35

  3. 3: The Search-Party is Organized

    14:40

  4. 4: On Board the House-Boat

    14:28

  5. 5: A Conference On Deck

    13:45

  6. 6: A Conference Below-Stairs

    15:30

  7. 7: The "Gehenna" Is Chartered

    14:12

  8. 8: On Board the "Gehenna"

    17:42

  9. 9: Captain Kidd Meets With an Obstacle

    17:33

  10. 10: A Warning Accepted

    13:44

  11. 11: Marooned

    15:50

  12. 12: The Escape and the End

    15:25

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Captain Kidd has carried off the floating clubhouse of the Associated Shades from the River Styx, with Queen Elizabeth and other women aboard. On the riverbank, Raleigh chairs an anxious meeting of spirits whose grand plans soon dissolve into arguments about boats, geography and grammar. John Kendrick Bangs turns this fantastic emergency into a comic novel, bringing Sherlock Holmes into a company that includes Socrates, Shakespeare, Noah and Dr. Johnson.

The humour comes from making figures of history and literature behave like quarrelsome club members. Aboard the missing boat, Cleopatra and her companions discuss Paris fashions while a committee struggles to present its scheme against the pirates. Holmes, meanwhile, takes command of the Gehenna for the pursuit. The mixture of detective parody, nautical adventure and talkative ghosts gives readers an unusual way to revisit familiar names, with their dignity repeatedly tested by everyday concerns.

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John Kendrick Bangs

John Kendrick Bangs combined American humor, editing, and fantasy, often bringing impossible visitors and talking objects into ordinary life. Bikey the Skicycle follows Jimmieboy and an animated bicycle whose air-filled tires carry them into a moonlit adventure, opening a larger collection of playful tales.

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Book facts

First published
1897
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
123
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Emma Joyce