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A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs
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. The book begins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx (in The Inferno, he was the ferryman of the river Acheron) being startled—and annoyed—by the arrival of a house boat on the Styx. At first a...
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Episodes
01 – Charon Makes a Discovery 02.01.2026 13:25
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02 – A Disputed Authorship 01.01.2026 11:59
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03 – Washington Gives a Dinner 31.12.2025 16:11
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04 – Hamlet Makes a Suggestion 30.12.2025 13:11
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05 – The House Committee Discuss the Poets 29.12.2025 12:51
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06 – Some Theories, Darwinian and Otherwise 28.12.2025 14:15
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07 – A Discussion as to Ladies’ Day 27.12.2025 13:15
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08 – A Discontented Shade 26.12.2025 16:57
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09 – As to Cookery and Sculpture 25.12.2025 15:18
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10 – Story-tellers’ Night 24.12.2025 16:09
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11 – As to Saurians and Others 23.12.2025 17:01
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12 – The House-Boat Disappears 22.12.2025 13:45
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