The Brass Bottle (novel)

The Brass Bottle is a 1900 comedy novel by the British writer Thomas Anstey Guthrie, under the pen name of F. Anstey, about a man who awakens a genie. In a much later review George Orwell praised the work, and noted how strong an influence it had on William Aubrey Darlington's 1920 work Alf's Button.^[1]

Film adaptations

It has been made into films on three occasions a 1914 British silent film The Brass Bottle, a 1923 American silent film The Brass Bottle and a 1964 American sound film The Brass Bottle.^[2]

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

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