A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name...

The Enchanted Typewriter is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. Bangs...

First released in 1893, Coffee And Repartee is a collection of breakfast chats at a gentlemans boarding house run by a Mrs. Smithers. Here these fellows repeatedly face questions...

Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief pursued by...

A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorded history. (Introduction by Matthew...

Summary: Four short Christmas stories, a bit sentimental, but still affecting and worthwhile. Plus Four Christmas verses. (Summary by David Wales)

Eight ghost stories by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Summary by David Wales)

Bangs is in top form in his version of this small collection of timeless fairy tales. If you dont immediately recognize Jack and the Check Book, Puss, the Promoter, and the Golden...

Hermentito era um menino solitário e sem amigos, que vivia isolado nos cantos do Colégio Vanguarda ou no alto do prédio que morava, o Gálex. Apaixonado por expedições...

This sequel to Bangs A House-Boat on the Styx continues the thought-experiment of bringing various historical and fictional figures together, detailing the adventures of the...