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The Wrong Box
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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Marianne North, Alfred Sisley and Thomas Rowlandson. A tontine has come down to two elderly brothers who between them can barely manage a staircase, and then a railway accident leaves a nephew with a body, a barrel and every reason not to report either. Stevenson wrote it with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, who produced a draft that Stevenson then rewrote entirely. The preface admits the whole thing is judicious levity and that one of the authors is old enough to be ashamed of himself. Fifty-seven comic plates from Rowlandson to Cruikshank, spanning 1821 to 1900, catch the farce of mistaken corpses and tontine greed in every tavern scene and street corner.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Marianne North, Alfred Sisley and Thomas Rowlandson. A tontine has come down to two elderly brothers who between them can barely manage a staircase, and then a railway accident leaves a nephew with a body, a barrel and every reason not to report either. Stevenson wrote it with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, who produced a draft that Stevenson then rewrote entirely. The preface admits the whole thing is judicious levity and that one of the authors is old enough to be ashamed of himself. Fifty-seven comic plates from Rowlandson to Cruikshank, spanning 1821 to 1900, catch the farce of mistaken corpses and tontine greed in every tavern scene and street corner.
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Isbn9785486005978
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Peso9.9 MB
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Número de páginas177
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IdiomaInglés
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FormatoEPUB
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ProtecciónDRM
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ReferenciaBKW212478