The Wrong Box - Couverture souple

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192824260 ISBN 13 : 9780192824264

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1995

Synopsis

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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Biographie de l'auteur

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192824260
• ISBN 13: 9780192824264
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 177
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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