The Enchanted Type-Writer is a collection of short stories by John Kendrick Bangs, published in 1899 with illustrations by Peter Newell. Bangs attributes many of the stories to the late (and invisible) James Boswell, who has become an editor for a newspaper in Hades, and who communicates with the author by means of an old typewriter. The stories are part of the author's Associated Shades series, sometimes called the Hades series for its primary setting. Their genre has become known as Bangsian fantasy.
 Front cover of the first edition | |
| Author | John Kendrick Bangs |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Peter Newell[1] |
| Series | Associated Shades |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers |
Publication date | 1899 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 170 pp |
| OCLC | 908974 |
| LC Class | PZ3.B224 E PS1064.B3[1] |
| Preceded by | Pursuit of the House-Boat |
| Followed by | Mr. Munchausen |
There are ten stories in the collection, and ten plates from illustrations by Newell.[2] They were first published serially in Harper's Weekly beginning August 5, 1899, including the Newell illustrations.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "The enchanted typewriter". LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
Links digital copy at HDL. - ^ "Publication: The Enchanted Type-Writer" (1st ed.). Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB.org). Retrieved 2016-09-02.
With list of Contents. Links digital copy at HDL. - ^ "The Enchanted Type-Writer". Harper's Weekly, vol. 43 part 2 (Jul–Dec 1899), pp. 763–64 and passim.
Page 763 (August 5, 1899), from original at University of California, at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL.handle.net). Retrieved 2016-09-02.
Sources
edit- Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 39.
External links
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- The Enchanted Type-Writer, digital copy of the first edition, at the Internet Archive
The Enchanted Typewriter public domain audiobook at LibriVox- The Enchanted Typewriter at Project Gutenberg