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The Asbestos Society of Sinners: detailing the diversions of Dives and others on the playground of Pluto, with some broken threads of drop-stitch history, picked up by a newspaper man in Hades and woven into a Stygian nights' entertainment

Name: The Asbestos Society of Sinners: detailing the diversions of Dives and others on the playground of Pluto, with some broken threads of drop-stitch history, picked up by a newspaper man in Hades and woven into a Stygian nights' entertainment
Author: Lawrence Daniel Fogg

by Lawrence Daniel Fogg

Level C1 · AdvancedClassics15 chapters

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CEFR level: C1
Length: 15 chapters
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A newspaper man receives a mysterious assignment to explore Hades, the playground of Pluto, weaving together dark humor and historical tales from the underworld in a witty and imaginative journey beyond the Styx.

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15 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

01The Asbestos Society of Sinners · Ch.1Free

02Pleasantries in Passing.

03CHAPTER I. The Summons from Satan.

04CHAPTER II. Shady Sinners of the Styx.

05CHAPTER III. John Brown’s Body and the Bones of John Paul Jones.

06CHAPTER IV. Henry VIII. and His Harem in Hades.

07CHAPTER V. What Methuselah Thinks of Dr. Osler.

08CHAPTER VI. The Virgin Throned in the West: A Tabloid Tangle of Love and History.

09CHAPTER VII.

10CHAPTER VIII.

11CHAPTER IX. When Adam was a Boy: Random Recollections of the Oldest Inhabitant.

12CHAPTER X. Election Day Beyond the Styx.

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