Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners‪)‬

Thomas Anstey Guthrie was an English novelist and journalist, who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey. Guthrie became an important member of the staff of Punch magazine, in which his voces populi and his humorous parodies of a reciter's stock-piece represent his best work. Many of Anstey's stories have been adapted into theatrical productions, motion pictures. In later life, Anstey spent a good deal of time overseeing dramatizations of his works, and later film adaptations. According to the critics the fantasy of Guthrie's stories is a lighthearted critique of middle-class British society during the Victorian era.

The novel describes the late 19th century. Due to this, the readers could find out about the lower orders more than in more popular books of the era. The book is full of humor, the pathos:; it has an unpredictable plot. Read the story till the end to know what adventures faced the main hero!