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The wrong box / Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne ; introduced by David Pascoe.
Author
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Description
152 pages ; 21 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR5487 .W8 1995
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Detective and mystery stories
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Osbourne, Lloyd, 1868-1947
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Detective and mystery fiction
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Series
Oxford popular fiction
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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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