F. Anstey

Thomas Anstey Guthrie was an English humorist, novelist, and journalist, who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey. In 1883, he published a serious novel, The Giant's Robe; but he discovered that it was not as a serious novelist but as a humorist that the public insisted on ...

A djinn, sealed in a jar for three thousand years, has been found by Horace Ventimore, a young and not very flourishing architect. Upon his release the djinn expresses his gratitude by seeking to grant his benefactor's every wish--generally with results the very opposite to those desired!