The Wrong Box
The Wrong Box is an 1889 comic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), written with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. A black farce built around a tontine, a fortune that goes to the last survivor, it sends a misdelivered corpse and a scheming cast careering through Victorian England in one of Stevenson’s rare excursions into pure comedy. A welcome change of key from Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde, it was memorably filmed in 1966. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.
About the Author
Stevenson came from a family of Scottish lighthouse engineers and was expected to join the firm; he read engineering, switched to law, qualified, and never practised. Lung disease followed him from an Edinburgh childhood onward and sent him chasing warm climates for the rest of…
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Listen to The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson free online. The full audiobook (6 hr 20 min, 16 chapters, read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)) streams free on this page.
The Wrong Box (1889) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In Which Morris Suspects | 27:48 | |
| 2 | In Which Morris takes Action | 30:35 | |
| 3 | The Lecturer at Large | 23:08 | |
| 4 | The Magistrate in the Luggage Van | 9:06 | |
| 5 | Mr Gideon Forsyth and the Gigantic Box | 19:12 | |
| 6 | The Tribulations of Morris: Part the First | 30:36 | |
| 7 | In Which William Dent Pitman takes Legal Advice | 25:14 | |
| 8 | In Which Michael Finsbury Enjoys a Holiday | 38:21 | |
| 9 | Glorious Conclusion of Michael Finsbury's Holiday | 31:14 | |
| 10 | Gideon Forsyth and the Broadwood Grand | 19:25 | |
| 11 | The Maestro Jimson | 33:22 | |
| 12 | Positively the Last Appearance of the Broadwood Grand | 19:53 | |
| 13 | The Tribulations of Morris: Part the Second | 20:49 | |
| 14 | William Bent Pitman Hears of Something to his Advantage | 28:45 | |
| 15 | The Return of the Great Vance | 13:47 | |
| 16 | Final Adjustment of the Leather Business | 8:47 |
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