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  • FROM PILLAR TO POST: LEAVES FROM A LECTURER'S NOTE-BOOK
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    FROM PILLAR TO POST: LEAVES FROM A LECTURER'S NOTE-BOOK
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Excerpt: "I cannot imagine a more disagreeable way of qualifying for the income tax," said one of America's most noted after-dinner speakers to me when at a chance meeting he and I were discussing the joys and woes of the lecture platform. I must admit that in a way I sympathized with him; for I knew something of the sufferings endured for days and nights prior to one's own pub...

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  • JACK AND THE CHECK BOOK
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    JACK AND THE CHECK BOOK
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Mr. Bangs turns his light and ingenious fancy to the task of retelling the familiar fairy tales of our youthful days. In several of them it is Wall Street that replaces the land of "Never-Never" and "Once Upon a Time," and the personages in the drama are more interested in high finance than in fairy treasures. It is all admirable fooling, and done in the author's best vein. ...

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  • R. HOLMES & CO.
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    R. HOLMES & CO.
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Raffles Holmes comes from impressive stock, with both larceny and detection in his blood in equal measure. He's the son of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, and the grandson of gentleman criminal A. J. Raffles. No wonder he's so conflicted between the desire to solve crimes and the urge to make sure the rich get their deserved comeuppance. Yet there is one ambition that ...

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  • REFORMING OR RE-INVENTING SCHOOLS?
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    REFORMING OR RE-INVENTING SCHOOLS?
    JOHN MACBEATH / MAURICE GALTON / JOHN BANGS
    What has changed and what will change in the next decade? Reforming or Re-inventing Schools? revisits some of the key issues in school and system reform, with a reflection on developments in the English education system and internationally. It offers an insightful review and critique of education principles and their relationship to school practice, exploring some of the myths ...

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  • REINVENTING SCHOOLS, REFORMING TEACHING
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    REINVENTING SCHOOLS, REFORMING TEACHING
    JOHN BANGS / JOHN MACBEATH / MAURICE GALTON
    What lessons can we learn from the relationship between policy-makers and schools over the life of the ‘New’ Labour and its predecessor Conservative government? What happened to ‘Education, Education, Education’ as it travelled from political vision to classroom practice? What are the lasting legacies of 13 years of a reforming Labour government? And what are the key messages f...

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  • TOPPLETON'S CLIENT
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    TOPPLETON'S CLIENT
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    In novels like "Toppleton's Client" – and in collections like" The Water Ghost and Others", which contains his best work, "Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others" and "Over the Plum Pudding" – John Kendrick Bangs attempted to master a comically debunking style of fantasy which was like that of Mark Twain. ...

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  • MOLLIE AND THE UNWISEMAN ABROAD
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    MOLLIE AND THE UNWISEMAN ABROAD
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Excerpt: ""Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad" …The second, well he was a rubber-doll, who talked through a whistling hat. His speech ran over with folderol, but his jokes they were never at. He squeaked and creaked with his heart care-free, such things as this tale will tell, but whether asleep or at work was he The little maid loved him well…." ...

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  • THE ENCHANTED TYPEWRITER
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    THE ENCHANTED TYPEWRITER
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922)is without doubt one of the most prolific writers of fantastic novels and stories set in Hades. The three works which comprise his "Hades" series, A Houseboat on the Styx (1895), Pursuit of the Houseboat (1897), and The Enchanted Type-Writer (1899) are acknowledged classics of modern fantasy. (Goodreads) ...

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  • MOLLIE AND THE UNWISEMAN
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    MOLLIE AND THE UNWISEMAN
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Excerpt:" Mollie had been romping in the hay all the afternoon. With her were Flaxilocks, the French doll, and young Whistlebinkie, the rubber boy, who had got his name from the fact that he had a whistle set in the top of his beaver hat. Flaxilocks and Whistlebinkie could stand a great deal of romping, and so also could Mollie, but, on the whole, the little girl was not so str...

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  • ALICE IN BLUNDERLAND: AN IRIDESCENT DREAM
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    ALICE IN BLUNDERLAND: AN IRIDESCENT DREAM
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    John Kendrick Bangs takes Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and turns it into a political satire in many ways as fresh, keen and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. (Goodreads) ...

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  • A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX
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    A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    The premise of the book is that everyone who's ever died (up to the time of its publication) has gone to Styx, the river that circles the underworld. The book begins with the ferryman Charon being startled & annoyed by the arrival of a houseboat on the Styx. At first afraid that the boat will put him out of business, he later finds out that he is actually to be appointed its ja...

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  • GHOSTS I HAVE MET AND SOME OTHERS
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    GHOSTS I HAVE MET AND SOME OTHERS
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a delightfully humorous collection of short tales relating encounters with ghosts by the American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE WATER GHOST AND OTHERS
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    THE WATER GHOST AND OTHERS
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    In novels like "Toppleton's Client" – and in collections like" The Water Ghost and Others", which contains his best work, "Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others" and "Over the Plum Pudding" – John Kendrick Bangs attempted to master a comically debunking style of fantasy which was like that of Mark Twain. ...

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  • THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT
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    THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    The book carry's on the tradition of the Bangsian Fantasy and brings together an assortment of heavyweights from the history and mythology together to create a satire that showcase the power of vocal humor, for which Bangs was largely renowned for during his time. After the House-Boat was hijacked by Captain Kidd at the end of "A House-Boat on the Styx", the various members of ...

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  • THE INVENTIONS OF THE IDIOT
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    THE INVENTIONS OF THE IDIOT
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    The Inventions of the Idiot by John Kendrick Bangs is a delightful anthology that invites readers into the whimsical world of Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog's High-class Home for Single Gentlemen. At the heart of this collection is "The Inventions of the Idiot," where the titular character, an eccentric boarder, sparks lively debates with his peculiar ideas and sharp wit. Set in a board...

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  • MR. BONAPARTE OF CORSICA
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    MR. BONAPARTE OF CORSICA
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Excerpt: ""That settles it," said Napoleon. "It's to be war. I'm willing to divide creation with England, but two's company and three's a crowd, and the Russian Bear must keep his paws off. I will go to Italy, Bourrienne, collect a few more thrones, and then we'll get to work on a new map of Europe. Russia never did look well or graceful on the existing maps...."" By the Americ...

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  • BIKEY THE SKICYCLE AND OTHER TALES OF JIMMIEBOY
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    BIKEY THE SKICYCLE AND OTHER TALES OF JIMMIEBOY
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    "Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy" by John Kendrick Bangs is a captivating anthology that transports readers to a world where imagination and whimsy reign supreme. In "Jimmieboy and His Adventures," the young protagonist discovers that his new bicycle, Bikey, has magical properties that transform ordinary days into extraordinary ones. This story invites readers t...

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  • OLYMPIAN NIGHTS
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    OLYMPIAN NIGHTS
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Excerpt: "While travelling through the classic realms of Greece some years ago, sincerely desirous of discovering the lurking-place of a certain war which the newspapers of my own country were describing with some vividness, I chanced upon the base of the far-famed Mount Olympus. Night was coming on apace and I was tired, having been led during the day upon a wild-goose chase b...

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  • THE BICYCLERS AND THREE OTHER FARCES
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    THE BICYCLERS AND THREE OTHER FARCES
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    These four short plays by sometime fantasy author John Kendrick Bangs rely on misunderstandings, miscommunication, and funny asides to the audience for their humour. (Goodreads) ...

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  • R. HOLMES & CO.
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    R. HOLMES & CO.
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Raffles Holmes possesses all of the detection skills of his father, Sherlock—with none of the responsibility Raffles Holmes comes from impressive stock, with both larceny and detection in his blood in equal measure. He's the son of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, and the grandson of gentleman criminal A. J. Raffles. No wonder he's so conflicted between the desire to so...

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  • THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT
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    THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Not even death can keep a good pirate down—but the world's greatest detective might be able to give him a run for his money The houseboat on the river Styx is the afterlife's hippest meeting spot, and it attracts some of history's greatest luminaries: William Shakespeare, Confucius, Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington, and Socrates have all spent time together there. But such...

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