''The Lunatic at Large'' is an 1899 comedy novel by the British writer

J. Storer Clouston Joseph Storer Clouston OBE (23 May 1870, Cumberland, England – 23 June 1944, Orkney, Scotland) was a Scottish author and historian. Life and work J. S. Clouston, the son of psychiatrist Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an "old Orkney family", ac ...

. A popular success, it was followed by three sequels '' The Lunatic at Large Again'' (1922), ''The Lunatic Still at Large'' (1923), and ''The Lunatic In Charge'' (1926).

Synopsis

Francis Beveridge escapes from a lunatic asylum and heads for London. There, at a luxury hotel he meets up with a travelling German

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and becomes his guide to the sights of England and its capital city.

Film adaptations

It has been made into films on two occasions, a 1921 British silent film directed by and starring Henry Edwards and a 1927 American silent film directed by

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and starring Leon Errol, Dorothy Mackaill and Warren Cook.Goble p.87

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Royle, Trevor. ''Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature''. Macmillan, 1984. 1899 British novels Novels set in London British comedy novels Novels by J. Storer Clouston British novels adapted into films William Blackwood books {{1890s-novel-stub