River

:For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate. For the state of Nigeria, see Rivers State.

Rivers in myth and fiction

Real rivers

• The Thames in Edward Rutherfurd's London.
• The Thames in Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.
• The Thames and the Congo in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
• The Mississippi in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.

Mythological rivers

• In Greek mythology, the Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon, Lethe and Styx (the five rivers of Hades); and the Eridanus.
• The Styx in Virgil's Aeneid.
• The Styx in Dante's Inferno.
• The Alph, an underground river imagined by various mystics and mentioned in Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan.
• The Sambation river stops flowing every Saturday.

Fictional rivers

• River Ankh traversing the city of Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
• Chocolate river in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
• River Djel in the country of Djelibeybi in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
• The River in the Riverworld novels of Philip José Farmer.
• Rivers of Middle-earth in various works of J. R. R. Tolkien.