The Wrong Box (novel)
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| Author(s) | Robert Louis Stevenson Lloyd Osbourne |
| Country | Scotland |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Black comedy |
| Publisher | Longmans,Green & Co. |
| Publication date | 1889 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 283 |
| ISBN | NA |
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 is notable for being 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.
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[edit] Characters
- Joseph Finsbury
- Morris Finsbury
- John Finsbury
- Julia Hazeltine
- Michael Finsbury
- Gideon Forsyth
- William Dent Pitman
- Edward Hugh Bloomfield
[edit] Literary significance and reception
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.
[edit] Adaptation
The Wrong Box was filmed in 1966 starring Michael Caine. The Robert Louis Stevenson website maintains a complete list of derivative works.[1]
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