The Wrong Box

Author:   Lloyd Osbourne ,  RL Stevenson
Publisher:   Hachette India
ISBN:  

9789357311540


Pages:   196
Publication Date:   20 November 2025
Format:   Paperback
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The Wrong Box


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A farcical comic caper … from the author of Treasure Island! The Finsbury family has long had a Tontine–a scheme in which a group puts money into a 'pot' which then is scooped by the last survivor after everyone else dies – a macabre winner takes all scheme. 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. The Wrong Box was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. 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""I have got R.L. Stevenson's 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"" – Rudyard Kipling ""…a farce that slips down the throat with the nicety of an oyster,"" – V.S. Pritchett ""…perhaps the most superb extravaganza in the language.""– E.F. Benson

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Author:   Lloyd Osbourne ,  RL Stevenson
Publisher:   Hachette India
Imprint:   Hachette India
Dimensions:   Width: 12.20cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 18.20cm
Weight:   0.160kg
ISBN:  

9789357311540


ISBN 10:   9357311548
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   20 November 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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