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The Brass Bottle - A Play
F. Anstey
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Horace.
Don't think I'm believing in you. [Walking round the front of the bottle, as if to test Fakrash by touching him.] I've sense enough to know you're not real!
[He withdraws his hand without venturing upon the experiment.
Fakrash.
Stroke thy head and recover thy faculties! I am real, even as thou art.
[He touches Horace's shoulder; Horace recoils.
Horace.
I shall come round in time! [By the table, to Fakrash.] You tell me you've just come out of this bottle?
Fakrash.
Dost thou doubt that it is even as I have said?
Horace.
Well, I should have thought myself you'd take a bigger size in bottles. But of course, I couldn't doubt you if I saw you get into it again.Read More
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Community Reviews
ENGLISH: A young architect in love buys an ancient bottle, and, when it is opened, one of the Djinn of the Thousand Night and One Night comes out. But while trying to show his gratitude, the Genie just creates problems for the young man. Apparently this book was very well known in its time, for E. N
Don't keep your laughter bottled up.
Chapters:
I. Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission
II. A Cheap Lot
III. An Unexpected Opening
IV. At Large
V. Carte Blance
VI. Embarras de Richesses
VII. "Gratitude-A Lively Sense of Favours to Come"
VIII. Bachelor's Quarters
IX. "Persicos Odi, Puer, Apparatus"
X. No Place
Don't keep your laughter bottled up.
Chapters:
I. Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission
II. A Cheap Lot
III. An Unexpected Opening
IV. At Large
V. Carte Blance
VI. Embarras de Richesses
VII. "Gratitude-A Lively Sense of Favours to Come"
VIII. Bachelor's Quarters
IX. "Persicos Odi, Puer, Apparatus"
X. No Place
Quite fun, and the reverse of the normal expectation--how to stop the genie from thanking him! Which ordinarily I'd be annoyed by (there seem to me lots of perfectly decent wishes that could be granted, one should try those), but the genie had such a way of mucking things up that I could quickly see
Начиналось всё очень хорошо: английский юмор, богатый язык и нетривиальный сюжет (вот откуда был переписан, пусть и со значительными изменениями, The Old Genie Hottabych)!!! Но потом выходки джинна стали меня утомлять своим однообразием, да ещё трудный (пусть и красивый) для меня английский (книга б
This wasn't to bad, if it's compared to the other works around at this time it can certainly hold out against the competition. The outrageous story of a man who gets a brass bottle at an auction only to find a genie here-in, much hilarity ensues.
Not well written but damned good fun.