F. Anstey 4 hr 16 min read

Young architect Horace Ventimore frees a grateful genie from an old brass bottle, and the jinnee's overwhelming 'gifts' upend his London life, here recast for the stage as a farce in four acts.

F. Anstey's 1911 play adapts his beloved comic fantasy 'The Brass Bottle' for the theatre. Witty, charming, delightfully farcical. Read it for the stage version of the classic genie comedy, an ancient jinnee's misguided generosity plaguing a modern young man, in brisk, laugh-filled dramatic form.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 16 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).