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The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson; Lloyd Osbourne; Ian Rankin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Wrong Box about?

208 pages ; 20 cm A masterpiece of farcical comedy by the author of Treasure Island sees two brothers about to inherit a fortune, if only one pesky relative would adhere to the rules. Morris and John Finsbury stand to gain a lot of money if their Uncle Masterman dies, but none if Uncle Joseph dies first. So when Joseph seems to have come to an untimely end in a railway accident, a farcical sequence is set in motion. Determined to conceal the death, Morris hides the body in a barrel which he then ships to London. How will the situation resolve itself and for how long can the deception continue? First published in 1889 and adapted several time for film and musical, The Wrong Box is Stevenson at his funniest. The farce moves at a tremendous pace with Stevenson rapidly piling up train crashes, missing uncles, cases of mistaken identity, and surplus dead bodies First published in 1889

Who reads The Wrong Box?

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson; Lloyd Osbourne; Ian Rankin

Publisher

Hesperus Classics

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780944371

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.62 / 5 (293 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13