Wrong Box, The

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

Book Id: WPLBN0002951931
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File Size: 182.47 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Wrong Box, The
Author:	Stevenson, Robert Louis
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Humor
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Wrong Box, The
Historic Publication Date:	1889
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Louis Stevenson, B. R., & Osbourne, L. (1889). Wrong Box, The. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have died. That last subscriber then receives the whole of the proceeds). The story involves the last two such survivors and their relations, a train crash, missing uncles, surplus dead bodies and innocent bystanders. A farce really. (Summary by AJM)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Fiction, Humor