The wrong box / Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne ; introduced by David Pascoe.

Author
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Description
152 pages ; 21 cm.

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    Oxford popular fiction [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "The Wrong Box (1889) is one of Stevenson's strangest works. Written with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, it is a masterpiece of black comedy, turning on mistaken identity, the disappearance of a corpse, and several makeshift coffins." "The Finsbury family has long been involved in a Tontine - a scheme in which subscribers invest money in a fund which then falls to the last survivor. Now there are only two aged uncles between Morris and John Finsbury and their fortune. A railway accident appears to dispose of one; and then the farce begins..." "In this eccentric and brilliantly plotted story the authors extended the boundaries of good taste. The Wrong Box perplexed some of its Victorian readers; a century on it is less shocking but the comedy is as deft as ever."--BOOK JACKET.
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    ISBN
    • 0192824260
    • 9780192824264
    LCCN
    95011741
    OCLC
    32242360
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