Title: In Brief Authority
Title Record # 19864
Author: F. Anstey
Date: 1915-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: F. Anstey
Date: 1915-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Note:
Two more reviews, wholly positive:
-- ample, the lead and longest in "Fiction", The Spectator 115.4554 (1915-10-09) p481-??
-- brief, in "Fiction", The Athenaeum 4590 (1915-10-16) p263
Wholly planned and 3/4 written before the World-War [August 1914] and "inseparably connected with certain characters and incidents of German origin", Anstey carried on without revision "because I cannot bring myself to believe that the nursery friends of our youth could ever be regarded as enemies."
--Author's Note, September 1915
The Spectator believes those "nursery friends" are the Brothers Grimm and Märchenland (German fairy tale land).
Synopsis:
"It relates the strange adventures in fairyland of the Wibberley-Stimpsons, a family living in a highly select locality within half-an-hour's railway journey from London. Owing to a mistake Mr. and Mrs. [W-S] are crowned joint sovereigns of the fairy land, but their reign, as the title implies, is not a long one, and the difficulties and embarrassments they meet with, and the causes which lead to their ultimate downfall, are fully described in the course of the story."
--entire review in "Literary Gossip", The Athenaeum 4586 (1915-09-18) p195
(as "A new novel" forthcoming 1915-09-23, which may be correct)
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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In Brief Authority | 1915-10-00 | F. Anstey | Smith, Elder & Co. | 6/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
x+ 413 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
In Brief Authority | 2009-03-31 | F. Anstey | Project Gutenberg | 28459 | $0.00?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction