The complete online text of The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces by John Kendrick Bangs.

John Kendrick Bangs, as the invariable tripartite nomenclature on the spines of his many books might attest, was a genteel figure whose humorous writing is characterized by a gentle and, at times, unremitting wit, erudition, irony, and urbanity. He was n...

During the 1890s and into the twentieth century John Kendrick Bangs was one of the major humorists in the United States. As humor editor of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Harper's Bazar, Harper's Weekly, and Harper's Young People for over a decade, he ha...

In Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, a peddling entrepreneur might pull up and offer you a leisurely oceanfront tour via a three-wheeled passenger bike known as a pedicab. On the way to a ball game in Denver, another pedicab operator might offer you...

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