John Kendrick Bangs 2 hr 9 min read

A modern traveler climbs Mount Olympus and finds it run as a grand luxury hotel, complete with an elevator boy, a valet, and the gods of Greece attending to the amenities.

John Kendrick Bangs's 1902 fantasy is a witty comic tour of a thoroughly modernized Olympus. Charming, satirical, delightful period fantasy. Read it for a genial send-up in which the classical deities keep house like hoteliers, from a master of American humorous fantasy.

In its time

Published in 1902, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 9 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).