An edition of The wrong box (1889)

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An edition of The wrong box (1889)

The Wrong Box

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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.

Publish Date
Publisher
IndyPublish.com
Language
English
Pages
168

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Cover of: The Wrong Box
The Wrong Box
January 2003, IndyPublish.com
Paperback in English
Cover of: The  wrong box
The wrong box
1995, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: The  wrong box
Cover of: The  wrong box
The wrong box
1912, C. Scribner's Sons
Cover of: The  wrong box
The wrong box
1889, C. Scribner's Sons
in English
Cover of: The  wrong box
The wrong box
1889, Longmans, Green
Cover of: The  wrong box
The wrong box
1889, Longmans, Green
in English

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
168
Weight
9.1 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8402972M
ISBN 10
1404339418
ISBN 13
9781404339415
Library Thing
451406
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1645669

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