Vice Versa
- First published
- 1930
- Pages
- 201
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Preface & Black Monday
31:24 -
A Grand Transformation Scene
40:47 -
In the Toils
39:50 -
A Minnow Amongst Tritons - Part 1
23:21 -
A Minnow Amongst Tritons - Part 2
32:15 -
Disgrace
47:07 -
Learning and Accomplishments
41:23 -
Cutting the Knot
37:56 -
Unbending the Bow
30:20 -
A Letter Home
30:33 -
The Complete Letter-Writer
22:43 -
A Day of Rest
31:18 -
Against Time
37:47 -
A Respite
25:20 -
An Error of Judgment
27:41 -
The Rubicon
31:06 -
Hard Pressed - Part 1
22:53 -
Hard Pressed - Part 2
22:20 -
A Perfidious Ally
38:24 -
Run to Earth
28:58 -
The Reckoning
40:01
Vice Versa (1882) is a public domain work.
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First published in 1882, this comic novel is an early and hugely influential body-swap fantasy. Paul Bultitude, a self-important City merchant, cannot fathom why his son Dick dreads returning to Dr. Grimstone's boarding school, and he loftily declares that he wishes he were a boy again. A stone brought back from India by Dick's uncle, said to grant a single wish, takes him at his word. Father and son trade bodies, and the pompous Mr. Bultitude is packed off to school in his son's place, at the mercy of the cane, the wretched food, and the petty tyrannies he had airily dismissed. Anstey plays the reversal for farce while quietly puncturing Victorian notions about childhood and paternal authority. Its influence runs straight through to Freaky Friday and the switch comedies that followed.
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Book facts
- Author
- F. Anstey
- First published
- 1930
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 201
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Sandra G, Jules Hawryluk, Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) and others