Hoity Toity (novel)
The cover of Hoity Toity | |
| Author | Alexander Belyayev |
|---|---|
| Original title | Хойти Тойти |
| Translator | Violet L. Dutt |
| Language | Russian |
| Series | Professor Wagner's Inventions |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Foreign Languages Publishing House (Moscow) |
Publication date | 1930 |
| Publication place | Soviet Union |
Published in English | 1961 |
| Pages | 204 pp |
Hoity Toity (Russian: Хойти-Тойти) is a 1929 Soviet science fiction novella written by Alexander Belyayev. The novel, part of the Professor Wagner's Inventions series, was first published in Vsemirny Sledopyt magazine between January and February 1930. It was later included in the 1961 science fiction anthology known as A Visitor from Outer Space.
Hoity Toity, set in the 1920s, describes the adventures of an elephant which has the brain of a young German scientist. It has been translated into Bengali and many other languages.