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Book by Stevenson Robert Louis Osbourne Lloyd
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The Wrong Box is one of Stevenson's strangest works. Written with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, it is a masterpiece of black comedy, turning on mistaken identity, the disappearance of a corpse, and several makeshift coffins. The Finsbury family has long been involved in a Tontine - a scheme in which subscribers invest money in a fund which then falls to the last survivor. Now there are only two aged uncles between Morris and John Finsbury and their fortune. A railway accident appears to dispose of one; and then the farce begins...In this eccentric and brilliantly plotted story the authors not only extended the boundaries of good taste but also satirized the popular Railway Novel genre. The Wrong Box perplexed some of its Victorian readers; a century on it is less shocking but the comedy is deft as ever. This book is intended for general readership; possible some students of late 19th-century fiction.
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- VerlagOxford Paperbacks
- Erscheinungsdatum1995
- ISBN 10 0192824260
- ISBN 13 9780192824264
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten177
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Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1995
ISBN 10: 0192824260
ISBN 13: 9780192824264
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Wrong Box is one of Stevenson's strangest works. Written with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, it is a masterpiece of black comedy, turning on mistaken identity, the disappearance of a corpse, and several makeshift coffins. The Finsbury family has long been involved in a Tontine - a scheme in which subscribers invest money in a fund which then falls to the last survivor. Now there are only two aged uncles between Morris and John Finsbury and their fortune. A railway accident appears to dispose of one; and then the farce begins.In this eccentric and brilliantly plotted story the authors not only extended the boundaries of good taste but also satirized the popular Railway Novel genre. The Wrong Box perplexed some of its Victorian readers; a century on it is less shocking but the comedy is deft as ever. This book is intended for general readership; possible some students of late 19th-century fiction. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Artikel-Nr. GOR002170897
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