Wrong Box

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Humorous Fiction

Authors: Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne In Year : 1889

Book Language: English

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In Which Morris Suspects
In Which Morris takes Action
The Lecturer at Large
The Magistrate in the Luggage Van
Mr Gideon Forsyth and the Gigantic Box
The Tribulations of Morris: Part the First
In Which William Dent Pitman takes Legal Advice
In Which Michael Finsbury Enjoys a Holiday
Glorious Conclusion of Michael Finsbury's Holiday
Gideon Forsyth and the Broadwood Grand
The Maestro Jimson
Positively the Last Appearance of the Broadwood Grand
The Tribulations of Morris: Part the Second
William Bent Pitman Hears of Something to his Advantage
The Return of the Great Vance
Final Adjustment of the Leather Business

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)