THE ATHENAEUMThe Wrong BoxRobert Louis Stevenson
Comedy
The Wrong Box
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textTwo elderly brothers are the last survivors of a tontine, a lottery that pays out to whoever lives longest, and a railway accident sets off a comedy of mislaid bodies. Stevenson wrote it with his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. It is odd and very funny, and not at all what you expect from the author of Treasure Island.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 50 min
- Where to find it
- The Signal House, on the night railway
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1585. In the public domain in the United States.