- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. (20 Jan 1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0486247937
- ISBN-13: 978-0486247939
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,315,331 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Thus I might begin this tale with a biography of Tonti¿birthplace- parentage- genius probably inherited from his mother- remarkable instance of precocity etc¿and a complete treatise on the system to which he bequeathed his name.' (Excerpt)
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Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, the son of an engineer. He briefly studied engineering, then law, and contributed to university magazines while a student. Despite life-long poor health, he was an enthusiastic traveller, writing about European travels in the late 1870s and marrying in America in 1879. He contributed to various periodicals, writing first essays and later fiction. His first novel was Treasure Island in 1883, intended for his stepson, who collaborated with Stevenson on two later novels. Some of Stevenson's subsequent novels are insubstantial popular romances, but others possess a deepening psychological intensity. He also wrote a handful of plays in collaboration with W.E. Henley. In 1888, he left England for his health, and never returned, eventually settling in Samoa after travelling in the Pacific islands. His time here was one of relatively good health and considerable writing, as well as of deepening concern for the Polynesian islanders under European exploitation, expressed in fictional and factual writing from his final years, some of which was so contrary to contemporary culture that a full text remained unavailable until well after Stevenson's death. R. L. Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage in 1894.
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I loved reading 'The Wrong Box', and found myself laughing out loud several times. Whilst the plot itself is farcical, and gets ridiculous towards the end, this is more than compensated for by the clarity and seamlessly funny structure of the writing itself.
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I like the way RLS writes and was very surprised to find out that he had written the Wrong Box.Not his best work by any stretch but worth a read for all that.
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Morris Finsbury stands to gain a lot of money if his Uncle Masterman dies, but none if his Uncle Joseph dies first. So when Joseph seems to have died in a railway accident, he pretends he's still alive - with the sort of farcical consequences you'd expect. The premise is promising, but the book itself is mixed. The opening chapter's rather laborious as it sets up the situation at length, then the next few chapters - properly introducing the pompously oratorical Joseph and the nervous Morris - rocket along. But for me the pace slowed and petered out when it should increase, and several characters behave in ways too daft to be believable even in this genre (and even when they're drunk, as they often are). The idea of a smashed-up body to be disposed of felt a bit gruesome, too, for the otherwise light-hearted material, and the final denouement isn't that great. The romance of Gideon and Julia is nice though, and it has a few good jokes.
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