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| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson Lloyd Osbourne |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Black comedy |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green & Co. |
Publication date | 1889 |
| Publication place | Scotland |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 283 |
| Text | The Wrong Box at Wikisource |
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.[1] A film adaptation, also titled The Wrong Box, was released in 1966,[2] and a musical in 2002.
- ^ Maixner, Paul, ed. (2013). Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage. Taylor & Francis. p. 335. ISBN 978-1136174377.
- ^ "The Wrong Box". IMDb. Retrieved 8 November 2021.