Vice Versa (novel)

Vice Versa
Title page of an 1882 edition
AuthorF. Anstey
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy novel
PublisherD. Appleton & Company
Publication date
1882
Publication placeUnited Kingdom[1]
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages349 pp

Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers is a comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, writing under the pseudonym "F. Anstey", first published in 1882. The title originates from the Latin phrase "vice versa", meaning "the other way around".

In Victorian London, a father and son switch places by means of a magic stone from India, thus live each other's lives, and gain a better understanding for each other before they switch back.

  1. ^ Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 31.