A House-Boat on the Styx.

The House-Boat is a genteel club for gentlemen souls of all times and places. The book is composed of humorous and satirical (and often snarky) dialogues between unlikely sets of historical characters. It is brief, light-hearted, and quite entertaining. Fans of Alan Moore's graphic novel Promethea may recognize the title. In Promethea, John Kendrick Bangs is a distant relative of the main character, and she meets him in Yesod, the realm of imagination, on the very house-boat he created in his novel.