Vice Versa : The Wonderfully Funny Novel of a Father and Son who Change Places

F., Anstey

Literature & Fiction

Puffin Books

Salted Almonds

<p>As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

History

World

BiblioLife

The Tinted Venus: a Farcical Romance

Tourmalin's Time Cheques

HardPress Publishing

Burglar Bill: And Other Pieces for the Use of the Young Reciter; With Introduction, Remarks, and Stage-Directions (Classic Reprint)

Children's Books

Forgotten Books

Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934), was an English novelist and journalist, who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey. He was educated at King's College London and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1880. But the popular success of his story Vice Versa (1882) with its topsy-turvy substitution of a father for his schoolboy son, at once made his reputation as a humourist of an original type. He published in 1883 a serious novel, The Giant's Robe; but, in spite of its excellence, he discovered that it was not as a serious novelist but as a humourist that the public insisted on regarding him. As such his reputation was further confirmed by The Black Poodle (1884), The Tinted Venus (1885), and A Fallen Idol (1886). Many of Anstey's stories have been adapted into theatrical productions and motion pictures. The Tinted Venus (1885) was adapted by S. J. Perelman, Ogden Nash, and Kurt Weill into One Touch of Venus in 1943.

The Brass Bottle

Createspace

Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers

Classics

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"Tourmalin's Time Cheques" is not a work on finance, as might be supposed by those who are unfamiliar with the name, F. Anstey, on the title-page of this handsome little book. For some strange reason Anstey is not very well known in America, perhaps because he is an English humorist and because Americans confound English humor with English wit. Speaking broadly, however, the one is as subtle as the other is stupid. Anstey's fun is of the Jerome K. Jerome order, but Jerome has no such genius for plots as is shown in " The Tinted Venus," "The Black Poodle, and Other Stories," and last, but not least, " Tourmalin's Time Cheques," the story of a traveler who made arrangements (or dreamed he did) to bank his spare time and then draw upon principal and interest of minutes and half-hours and days whenever he wanted them. The drafts drawn upon this fund of time gave him the adventures he would have had in the natural course of events. They were very puzzling adventures, because he had no knowledge of the events which preceded them. The publishers could not have opened their summer series of light reading with a more entertaining book.  —Buffalo Express

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