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The Giant's Robe is a novel written by F. Anstey and first published in 1884. The story revolves around the life of a young, ambitious lawyer named Cyril Maitland. Cyril is determined to make a name for himself in the legal profession and is willing to do whatever it takes to...


This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original...


"The Giant's Robe" from Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Novelist and journalist, who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey (1856-1934).

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Thomas Anstey Guthrie (8 August 1856 - 10 March 1934) was an English author (writing as F. Anstey), most noted for his comic novel Vice Versa about a boarding-school boy and his father exchanging identities. His reputation was confirmed by The Tinted Venus and many humorous parodies...

IN the heart of the City, but fended off from the roar and rattle of traffic by a ring of shops, and under the shadow of a smoke-begrimed classical church, stands-or rather stood, for they have removed it recently-the large public school of St. Peter's. Entering the heavy old...




