The Honest-to-Goodness Most Poisonous Book of All

(Don’t believe this mendacious post! This is the real one!)

Anthony Trollope was one of the most popular novelists in Victorian England (I haven’t read any of them because they have no monsters in them). One fine night in 1882 he was reading the novel Vice Versa by Thomas Anstey Guthrie (who wrote it under the name of F. Anstey, 1882). Now Vice Versa is a humorous novel about a father and son who switch brains. The father tries to go to school, the son tries to go to work, and both of them en...