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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.

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Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons
Language
English
Pages
244

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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, Longmans, Green
in English
Cover of: The  wrong box
The wrong box
1889, Longmans, Green
Cover of: The  wrong box
The wrong box
1889, C. Scribner's Sons
in English

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New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
P23.S848 Wro

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 244 p.
Number of pages
244

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23362519M
Internet Archive
wrongbox00stev
LCCN
08015698
OCLC/WorldCat
2201411

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