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An edition of The wrong box (1889)

The wrong box

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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.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
152

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Cover of: The Wrong Box
The Wrong Box
June 27, 2007, Echo Library
Paperback in English
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The Wrong Box
April 3, 2007, BiblioBazaar
Paperback in English
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The Wrong Box (Large Print Edition)
April 3, 2007, BiblioBazaar
Paperback in English
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The Wrong Box
March 30, 2006, Dodo Press
Paperback in English
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The Wrong Box
November 3, 2006, Hard Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Aventuras de un cadáver
Aventuras de un cadáver
2005, Valdemar
in Spanish - 1a ed.
Cover of: The Wrong Box
The Wrong Box
December 31, 2005, Paperbackshop.Co.UK Ltd - Echo Library
Paperback in English - Largeprint edition
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The Wrong Box
April 30, 2004, IndyPublish.com
Hardcover in English
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The Wrong Box
January 2003, IndyPublish.com
Paperback in English
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The Wrong Box
September 2002, Fredonia Books (NL)
Paperback in English
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The wrong box
1995, Oxford University Press
in English
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The Wrong Box
September 1991, North Books
Hardcover - Largeprint edition
Cover of: The Wrong Box (Nonesuch Press)
The Wrong Box (Nonesuch Press)
May 1990, Viking Penguin Inc
Hardcover in English - New Ed edition
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The wrong box
1989, Nonesuch
in English - Rev. ed
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The wrong box
1985, Dover Publications
in English
Cover of: Aventuras de un cadaver.
Aventuras de un cadaver.
1981, Bruguera
in Spanish
Cover of: Wrong Box (World's Classics)
Wrong Box (World's Classics)
November 1975, Oxford University Press
Hardcover
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The wrong box
1966, Pan Books by arrangement with Oxford University Press
in English
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The wrong box
1961, Blackie
in English
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The wrong box.
1954, Oxford University Press
in English
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The wrong box
1912, C. Scribner's Sons
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The wrong box
1911, Musson Book Co.
in English
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The wrong box
1909, Longmans,Green and Co
in English
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The wrong box
1907, Longmans, Green and Co.
in English - Pocket ed.
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The wrong box
1905, C. Scribner's Sons
in English
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The wrong box
1903, C. Scribner's Sons
in English
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The wrong box
1899, Longmans, Green and Co
in English - New impression.
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The wrong box
1898, C. Scribner's Sons
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The wrong box
1889, C. Scribner's Sons
in English
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The wrong box
1889, Longmans, Green
Microform in English
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The wrong box
1889, Longmans, Green
in English
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The wrong box
1889, Longmans, Green, and Co.
in English
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The wrong box
1889, Charles Scribner's Sons
in English
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The wrong box
1889, Longmans, Green
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Wrong Box
Publish date unknown, Longmans,Green and Co
in English
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The wrong box: The body snatcher.
Publish date unknown, Heinemann
in English

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Published in

Oxford, New York

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Series
Oxford popular fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR5487 .W8 1995, PR5487.W8 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
152 p. ;
Number of pages
152

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1279920M
Internet Archive
wrongbox00stev_0
ISBN 10
0192824260
LCCN
95011741
Library Thing
451406
Goodreads
2443477

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