The Wrong Box (1889)

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne (Author)

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Classic Literature. Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) HTML: Though his adventure tales now rank among the most translated novels in the English language, Robert Louis Stevenson was a gifted writer who produced works in a number of different literary genres. The Wrong Box is a satirical novel that Stevenson wrote in partnership with Lloyd Osbourne, a young writer who happened to be Stevenson's stepson. The novel deals with a pair of brothers involved in a complex investment scheme that is revealed to be fraudulent. Critics and fans alike regard the novel as one of the most humorous financial farces ever written. .… (more)

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Actually read adaptation by Josephone Ohayon but that wasn't listed.

jenniebooknerd | Dec 31, 2021 |

1870s There are three surviving offspring, Michael, Morris and John, of the two brothers Joseph (71) and Masterman (73), who themselves are the last two members of a tontine. Can the cousins outwit each other to claim the money.
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Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 |

I chose this because of a reference to it in The Island of Sheep. I got off to a bad start with it and gave up fairly quickly. However, after reading some blurbs, I went back, after reading Miss Pym Disposes to see if things improved. Nope, this book stinks. It's supposed to be humorous, but it's stuffy and boring. (

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lgpiper | Jan 10, 2021 |

A farce co-written by R.L. Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, this comedy of a concealed body is hectic, improbable, dated, and intermittently funny. (

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dmturner | Jun 29, 2020 |

I know RL Stevenson had been dead before PG Wodehouse even published his first book, but this novel still felt like the former was trying to imitate the latter - and not quite succeeding. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Robert Louis Stevenson	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Osbourne, Lloyd	Author	main author	all editions	confirmed
Books, Joust	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Darwin, Bernard	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Edwards, Mark	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Escodín, Gerardo	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Furst, Henry	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Ian Ribbons	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kerr, Charles H.M.	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Méker, Geneviève	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Miller, Norbert	Afterword	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Minter, Andy	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Monés, Isidre	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Penzler, Otto	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Pestalozzi, Annemarie	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Pestalozzi, Roland U.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Reschofsky, Jean	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Steinmeyer, Petra	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Uijldriks, G. van	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Uildriks, Hillegonda van	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson (11)

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The Ebb Tide / The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Wrong Box by JOSEPHINE OHAYON

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Sixteen On: An Anthology of Railway Stories by Charles Irving

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How very little does the amateur, dwelling at home at ease, comprehend the labours and perils of the author, and, when he smilingly skims the surface of a work of fiction, how little does he consider the hours of toil, consultation with authorities, researches in the Bodleian, correspondence with learned and illegible Germans - in one word, the vast scaffolding that was first built up and then knocked down, to while away an hour for him in a railway train!

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Classic Literature. Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:

Though his adventure tales now rank among the most translated novels in the English language, Robert Louis Stevenson was a gifted writer who produced works in a number of different literary genres. The Wrong Box is a satirical novel that Stevenson wrote in partnership with Lloyd Osbourne, a young writer who happened to be Stevenson's stepson. The novel deals with a pair of brothers involved in a complex investment scheme that is revealed to be fraudulent. Critics and fans alike regard the novel as one of the most humorous financial farces ever written.

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