Doesn't this book have an amazing cover?
Plus:
The title is not metaphorical; the story is actually about a houseboat on the River Styx, a houseboat populated by all the great thinkers from Diogenes to Confucius to Doctor Johnson...
UPDATE: As Tim points out in the comments, the book can be read for free as "etext" from Project Gutenberg. First chapter: Charon Makes a Discovery...
Posted by Dr. Frank at December 27, 2006 07:01 AM | TrackBackYou can read it for free at Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2618
Posted by: Tim at December 27, 2006 08:24 AMVery cool.
Here is a larger image of the cover:
http://www.library.rochester.edu/IN/RBSCP/Publishers%20Bindings/IMAGES/LargeBindings/00-3273.jpg
From this page:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ABOChgpdLJoJ:www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm%3Fpage%3D3348+houseboat+on+the+styx+illustrations&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=10&client=firefox-a
The illustrator of the cover was probably one Peter Newell, who did the interior illustrations. Some of Newell's work here:
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/illustrations/illustrators/newell.html
Book Illustrations in the era from about 1880 to about 1940 were so unbelievably good compared to what we have now.
Posted by: Lexington Green at December 27, 2006 08:42 PMYou can buy it for a little over 4 bucks plus shipping. Here's a link to one of over 500 such copies online:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetails?bi=514466294
Posted by: Don at December 28, 2006 03:33 AM