General Editor: DAVID TROTTER The Oxford Popular Fiction series introduces or reintroduces bestselling works of British and American fiction that have helped define new styles and genres, and that continue to resonate in the prototypical, controversial, groundbreaking, and sometimes notorious fiction of which classics are made. Complete with critical introductions, the Oxford Popular Fiction series is a personal library that lies at the heart of British and American popular culture. The Wrong Box (1889) is one of ...
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General Editor: DAVID TROTTER The Oxford Popular Fiction series introduces or reintroduces bestselling works of British and American fiction that have helped define new styles and genres, and that continue to resonate in the prototypical, controversial, groundbreaking, and sometimes notorious fiction of which classics are made. Complete with critical introductions, the Oxford Popular Fiction series is a personal library that lies at the heart of British and American popular culture. The Wrong Box (1889) is one of Stevenson's strangest works. Written with his stepson Lloyd Osborne, it is a masterpiece of black comedy, turning on mistaken identity, the disappearance of a corpse, and several makeshift coffins. V.S. Pritchett described it as "a farce that slips down the throat with the nicety of an oyster," and, according to E.F. Benson, it is "perhaps the most superb extravaganza in the language." In this intriguing work, the Finsbury family has long been involved in a Tontine--a scheme in which subscribers invest money in a fund which them 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, perplexing many Victorian readers.
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Trade paperback, as new in pictorial wraps. 0486247937 Originally published in 1889. Basis for the 1966 British film directed by Bryan Forbes. In Hubin.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Mineola, New York, U.S.A. : Dover Pubns 1985 Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cover design in browns by Paul Kennedy. Clean and unmarked wraps with slight wear to edges and corners. No creases. Pages completely unmarked, no underlining or highlighting, no creases or tears. "The Wrong Box" is black comedy at its best--a series of absurd pranks add up to a madcap farce that is as hilarious today as it was when Stevenson wrote it in 1889, in collaboration with his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. This edition is an unabridged replication of the edition originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 128 pp. 5.25 x 8.5 inches. 1985, Dover Publications, Mineola, New York.
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