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The Wrong Box (novel)

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Country
  
Scotland

Publication date
  
1889

Pages
  
283

Genre
  
Publisher
  
Longman

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1889

Page count
  
283

Adaptations
  
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Similar
  
Robert Louis Stevenson books, Classical Studies books, Fiction books

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.

Contents

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.

Characters

  • Joseph Finsbury
  • Morris Finsbury
  • John Finsbury
  • Julia Hazeltine
  • Michael Finsbury
  • Gideon Forsyth
  • William Dent Pitman
  • Edward Hugh Bloomfield
  • 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.

    Adaptation

    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.

    References

    The Wrong Box (novel) Wikipedia


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