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A black comic novel about the last remaining survivors of a tontine - a group life-insurance policy in which the last surviving member stands to receive a fortune. It is a farcical, eccentric and brilliantly written piece of work.
Table of Contents CHAPTER I. In Which Morris Suspects CHAPTER II. In Which Morris takes Action CHAPTER III. The Lecturer at Large CHAPTER IV. The Magistrate in the Luggage Van CHAPTER V. Mr Gideon Forsyth and the Gigantic Box CHAPTER VI. The Tribulations of Morris: Part the First CHAPTER VII. In Which William Dent Pitman takes Legal Advice CHAPTER VIII. In Which Michael Finsbury Enjoys a Holiday CHAPTER IX. Glorious Conclusion of Michael Finsbury's Holiday CHAPTER X. Gideon Forsyth and the Broadwood Grand CHAPTER XI. The Maestro Jimson CHAPTER XII. Positively the Last Appearance of the Broadwood Grand CHAPTER XIII. The Tribulations of Morris: Part the Second CHAPTER XIV. William Bent Pitman Hears of Something to his Advantage CHAPTER XV. The Return of the Great Vance CHAPTER XVI. Final Adjustment of the Leather Business
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. (Wikipedia.org)