The Wrong Box - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne first printed in 1889. It is a comical tale of misunderstandings, attempt of fraud, drunkenness, false identity and other misfortunes. This book is about the last remaining survivors of a tontine_a group life-insurance policy in which the last surviving member supports to receive a future. It is a amusing, unconventional and brilliantly written piece of work. The story includes the last two such survivors... Zobrazit více