Thomas Anstey

The Brass Bottle (Illustrated) Thomas Anstey

The Brass Bottle is a 1900 novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie under the pen name F. Anstey. It had three film adaptations. It is a comedy novel by the British writer Thomas Anstey Guthrie, under the pen name of F. Anstey, about a man who awakens a genie. In a much later review George Orwell praised the work and noted how strong an influence it had on William Aubrey Darlington's 1920 work Alf's Button.