Author(s): John Kendrick Bangs
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 248
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Language: English
Date Published: 2018-08-30
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 16mm
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Illustrations: 39 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white

Excerpt from A House-Boat on the Styx: Being Some an of the Divers the Associated Shades I most admire. But I am not inclined to be dogmatic, and however strong my con victions as to the limitations of this work, I should never so far forget myself as to criticise the taste of those who do find pleasure in perusing it. Concerning tastes there is no disputing, and I should not for an instant think of finding fault with the thousands of good people Who have taken the house-boat into their hearts. I am quite ready to admit that their judgment of its merits is reasonable in any event. Here and there I am able to see good points in this Stygian Romance, as a Chicago critic once called it, but for continuous, satisfactory reading, I prefer Shakespeare, Milton, and others whose methods differed somewhat from my own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.