Anstey
successfully blended fantasy and humour, achieving his first
success with a novel in which a father and son exchange bodies,
Vice-Versa (1882).
Novels
Vice
Versa, or A Lesson to Fathers, Smith, Elder (London), 1882
The
Tinted Venus, A Farcical Romance, J. W. Arrowsmith (Bristol)
Simpkin, Marshall (London) 1885
ditto, Harper and Brothers (London and New York), 1898.
Illustrated edition.
A Fallen
Idol, Smith,
Elder (London), 1886
Tomlin's
Time Cheques,
J. W. Arrowsmith (Bristol) [1891]
ditto, as The Time Bargain
The
Statement of Stella Maberley Written by Herself, I. Fisher Unwin (London)
1896 (published anonymously)
The Brass
Bottle,
Smith, Elder (London) 1900
In Brief
Authority,
Smith, Elder (London), 1915
Short Stories
The Black Poodle and Other
Tales,
Longmans (London), 1884
(Including: "The Wrath of Barnjum", "The Siren",
"The Curse of the Catafalques".)
The Broken Shaft: Tales in
Mid-Ocean,
Edited by Henry Norman, T. Fisher Unwin (London), 1886
(Including: "Marjory".)
The
Talking Horse and Other Tales, Smith, Elder (London) 1892
(Including: "The Talking Horse", "Tommy's Hero",
"The Good Little Girl", "Marjory".)
Salted
Almonds,
Smith, Elder (London), 1906
(Including "Why I Have Given Up Writing Novels",
Mrs Brassington Claypott's Children's Party", "The Magic H's",
"Caveat Emptor", "At A Moment's Notice", "The Gull", "A Bohemian
Bag", The Adventures of the Snowing Globe".)
The Last
Load: Stories and Essays, Methuen & Co. Ltd. (London), 1925
(Including: "Ferdie", "The Breaking
Point".)
Humour
and Fantasy,
John Murray (London) [1931]
(omnibus containing: Vice Versa, The Tinted
Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking
Horse, Salted Almonds, The Brass
Bottle.)
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