The Associated Shades

The Associated Shades This volume contains all the four humorous and witty novels by John Kendrick Bangs about The Associated Shades a group of famous dead people who become a sort of corporation or exclusive club in a house-boat on Styx. These stories created a new genre - Bangsian fiction - which is a story set almost or entirely in the afterlife. Members of The Associated Shades include: Confucius Socrates Sherlock Holmes Baron Munchausen William Shakespeare Napoleon Bonaparte Dr Samuel Johnson Nero James Boswell Charles Darwin George Washington Walter Raleigh among others.