{"product_id":"the-wrong-box-robert-louis-stevenson-9781410100344","title":"The Wrong Box","description":"The Wrong Box is one of Robert Louis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Louis Stevenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1410100340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781410100344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fredonia Books (NL)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Robert Louis Stevenson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48442225885439,"sku":"9781410100344","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_12f1cec3-4610-4c35-811c-4cfc8f387f69.jpg?v=1777195952","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wrong-box-robert-louis-stevenson-9781410100344","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}