The Wrong Box was filmed in 1966 starring Michael Caine. That man has only one lung but he makes you laugh with all your whole inside". Stevenson's In the Wrong Box and laughed over it dementedly when I read it. Rudyard Kipling, in a letter to his friend Edmonia Hill (dated September 17, 1889), praised the novel: A film adaptation, also titled The Wrong Box, was released in 1966, and a musical in 2002. Osbourne wrote the first draft of the novel late in 1887 (then called The Finsbury Tontine), Stevenson revised it in 1888 (then called A Game of Bluff) and again in 1889 when it was finally called The Wrong Box. The others were The Wrecker (1892) and The Ebb-Tide (1894). The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889.
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