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Lifetime: 1856 - 1934 Passed: ≈ 90 years ago

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F. Anstey

Books by F. Anstey

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Tourmalin’s Time Cheques

Fantasy Humour Science Fiction
Time Travel London Australia Banking Boredom

Peter Tourmalin is a man who is bored on a sea voyage back home to England from Australia. He discovers a bank that allows him to deposit his spare time into an account and withdraw it at any future date. He thinks this is a great idea, but things ge...

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Brass Bottle

Comedy Fantasy Adventure
Comedy Magic Fantasy Humor Misunderstanding Culture shock

When Horace Ventimore stumbles upon a magical brass bottle on a construction site, he inadvertently releases an ancient genie named Fakrash. Fakrash, eager to please his new master, attempts to use his vast powers to grant Horace's wishes. However, d...

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Vice Versa

Comedy Fantasy Fiction Humour Novel
Transformation Satire Coming-of-age Humor Boarding school School Days Body Swap Father-Son Magic Stone Role Reversal Identity Crisis

In Victorian England, businessman Paul Bultitude and his son Dick exchange bodies after making a foolish wish on a magic stone. Dick, now in his father's body, enjoys running the family business, while Paul endures the horrors of boarding school unde...

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Black Poodle and Other Tales

This is a collection of ten humorous short stories (Summary by Carolin)

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In Brief Authority

Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales') one evening in a car drawn by storks. The matron of the family, a thorough snob, is crowned Queen of the cou...

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Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races' reactions to someone from a different background. A series of adventures of a well educated foreigner in London which originally appeared weekly in Punc...

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Talking Horse And Other Stories

A collection of short stories by famed humorist and Punch magazine staff member, F. Anstey, pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. They range from humorous and whimsical to haunting and thought-provoking. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

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Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen

These short comic parodies of five well-known tragedies by Henrik Ibsen originally appeared in Punch, the British humor magazine. From the prefatory note: "The author is conscious that his imitation is painfully lacking in the mysterious obscurity of...

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Tinted Venus

When a young newly engaged man finds himself bound for an amusement garden with an old flame, not his fiancee, it is not surprising that he still feels some attraction for her. When they escape the heat of the dance floor to walk among the trees in t...

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Bayard from Bengal

The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manners, which immediately mark him as a foreigner, and embarks on an enviable program of escapades. These stories...

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Voces Populi

F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pieces for Punch and humorous novels. Voces Populi, a collection of his Punch pieces, is considered to be among...

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Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas

F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pieces for Punch and humorous novels. Mr. Punch's Model Music Hall is a collection of humorous pieces written fo...

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Giant's Robe

Mark Ashburn is a young teacher at St. Peter's Public School for boys, although he isn't particularly fond of boys. His dream is to make his name in the literary world but mediocrity and rejection meet him at every turn. Dejected, he meets up with Vi...

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Statement of Stella Maberly

From childhood Stella Maberly has been violently wilful and jealous, yet certain of her own superiority. She can be loving and friendly, but soon loses friends, when in the grip of her “demons” she acts with disdain and subtle cruelty, and then revel...

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Stories by English Authors: London

This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor of J. M. Barrie, of Peter Pan fame. A later and equally humorous story is by Israel Zangwill, also widely know...