{"product_id":"the-wrong-box-9789357311540","title":"The Wrong Box","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA farcical comic caper … from the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTreasure Island\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Finsbury family has long had a Tontine–a scheme in which a group puts money into a 'pot' which then is scooped by the last survivor after everyone else dies – a macabre winner takes all scheme. Now there are only two aged uncles between Morris and John Finsbury and their fortune. A railway accident appears to dispose of one, and then the farce begins. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wrong Box\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. Osbourne wrote the first draft of the novel late in 1887 (then called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Finsbury Tontine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), Stevenson revised it in 1888 (then called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Game of BluffThe Wrong Box\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. A film adaptation, also titled The Wrong Box, was released in 1966, starring Michael Caine and a musical in 2002. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I have got R.L. Stevenson's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ethe Wrong Box\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and laughed over it dementedly when I read it. That man has only one lung but he makes you laugh with all your whole inside\" – Rudyard Kipling\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"…a farce that slips down the throat with the nicety of an oyster,\" – V.S. Pritchett \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"…perhaps the most superb extravaganza in the language.\"– E.F. Benson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette India","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45165911867543,"sku":"9789357311540","price":195.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789357311540.webp?v=1769207547","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-wrong-box-9789357311540","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}