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The Wrong Box
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Aeterna Classics |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3964541206 |
A black comic novel about the last remaining survivors of a tontine - a group life-insurance policy in which the last surviving member stands to receive a fortune. It is a farcical, eccentric and brilliantly written piece of work.
The Wrong Box
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Wrong Box (1889) is a great mystery story by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The plot of the book revolves around Masterson and Joseph Finsbury. The two brothers are the last surviving beneficiaries of a tontine. Yet, their inheritance is not that easy as it seems at first sight.
The Wrong Box
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-03-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson. The others were The Wrecker (1892) and The Ebb-Tide (1894). Osbourne wrote the first draft of the novel late in 1887 (then called The Finsbury Tontine), Stevenson revised it in 1888 (then called A Game of Bluff) and again in 1889 when it was finally called The Wrong Box. A film adaptation, also titled The Wrong Box, was released in 1966, and a musical in 2002. Rudyard Kipling, in a letter to his friend Edmonia Hill (dated September 17, 1889), praised the novel: I have got R.L. Stevenson's In the Wrong Box and laughed over it dementedly when I read it. That man has only one lung but he makes you laugh with all your whole inside. The Wrong Box was filmed in 1966 starring Michael Caine. The novel was also adapted as a stage musical in 2002, and a studio cast recording of the show was released in August 2013. (Wikipedia.org)
The Wrong Box
Author | : Robert Louis Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2016-06-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781534904613 |
The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson. The others were The Wrecker (1892) and The Ebb-Tide (1894). Osbourne wrote the first draft of the novel late in 1887 (then called The Finsbury Tontine), Stevenson revised it in 1888 (then called A Game of Bluff) and again in 1889 when it was finally called The Wrong Box. A film adaptation, also titled The Wrong Box, was released in 1966, and a musical in 2002.