F. Anstey

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F. Anstey


Born
in London, England
August 08, 1856

Died
March 10, 1934

Genre
Humor, Science Fiction & Fantasy


Thomas Anstey Guthrie was an English novelist and journalist, who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey.

He was born in Kensington, London, to Augusta Amherst Austen, an organist and composer, and Thomas Anstey Guthrie. He was educated at King's College School 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 humorist of an original type. He published in 1883 a serious novel, The Giant's Robe; but, in spite of its excellence, he discovered (and again in 1889 with The Pariah) that it was not as a serious novelist but as a humorist that the public insisted o ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 1,309 ratings · 256 reviews · 152 distinct works • Similar authors
Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fat...
3.72 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1882 — 112 editions
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The Brass Bottle
3.65 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1900 — 380 editions
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The Statement of Stella Mab...
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Tourmalin's Time Cheques
3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1891 — 94 editions
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The Curse Of The Catafalques
3.46 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1884 — 13 editions
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The Black Poodle And Other ...
3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1884 — 79 editions
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The Talking Horse And Other...
3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1892
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The Tinted Venus
2.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1885 — 92 editions
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A Bayard From Bengal Being ...
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In Brief Authority
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