The Pursuit of the House-Boat
The Pursuit of the House-Boat is an 1897 novel by John Kendrick Bangs, and the second one to feature his Associated Shades take on the afterlife.
 Front cover of the first edition | |
| Author | John Kendrick Bangs |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Peter Newell[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Series | Associated Shades |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers |
Publication date | 1897 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 204 pp |
| OCLC | 225196 |
| LC Class | PZ3.B224 Pu PS1064.B3[2] |
| Preceded by | A House-Boat on the Styx |
| Followed by | The Enchanted Type-Writer |
The original full title was The Pursuit of the House-Boat: Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, Under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq.[1] and it has also been titled In Pursuit of the House-Boat and Pursuit of the House-Boat.
There are 12 chapters in the book. They were first published as a serial, under the full-title and including the Newell illustrations, in Harper's Weekly from February 6 to April 24, 1897.[3]
Plot summary
After the House-Boat was hijacked by Captain Kidd at the end of A House-Boat on the Styx, the various members of its club decided that in order to track it down, a detective would have to be called in. So they hired Sherlock Holmes, who, at the time of the book's publication, had indeed been declared dead by his creator.
References
- Catalog record (New York: Harper, 1897). HathiTrust Digital Library (hathitrust.org). Retrieved 2016-08-04.
- "The pursuit of the house-boat". LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
Links include electronic copy at HDL. - "The Pursuit of the House-Boat". Harper's Weekly, vol. 41 part 1 (Jan-Jun 1897), pp. 136–37 and passim.
Page 136 (February 6, 1897), from original at Pennsylvania State University, at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL.handle.net). Retrieved 2016-09-02.
- Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 40.
External links
- The Pursuit of the House-Boat at Project Gutenberg
- Read the text of the book at http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.1226/