John Kendrick Bangs 3 hr 23 min read

Young lawyer Hopkins Toppleton leases a London office and encounters a weary, exiled spirit with a horrid tale to tell, of a body stolen, an identity usurped, and a crowning act of infamy.

John Kendrick Bangs's 1893 novel is a witty comic ghost-fantasy. Droll, inventive, delightful. Read it for a genial supernatural comedy from the humorist behind A House-Boat on the Styx, a displaced ghost, a stolen life, and a lawyer's outlandish case, in the light, clever, tongue-in-cheek style that made Bangs a master of the American comic fantasy.

In its time

Published in 1893, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 23 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).