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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Aeterna Classics
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3964541206
A black comic novel about the last remaining survivors of a tontine - a group life-insurance policy in which the last surviving member stands to receive a fortune. It is a farcical, eccentric and brilliantly written piece of work.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
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The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson.
Author : Susanne Bauer
Publisher :
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
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ISBN : 9781912729067
A book full of boxes. A box in itself. An unboxing. This book explores boxes in their broadest sense and size. It invites us to step into the field, unravel how and why things are contained and how it might be otherwise. By turning the focus of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to boxing practices, this collation of essays examines boxes as world-making devices. Gathered in the format of a field guide, it offers an introduction to ways of ordering the world, unpacking their boxed-up, largely invisible politics and epistemics. Performatively, pushing against conventional uses of academic books, this volume is about rethinking taken-for-granted formats and infrastructures of scholarly ordering - thinking, writing, reading. It diverges from encyclopedic logics and representative overviews of boxing practices and the architectural organization of monographs and edited volumes through a single, overarching argument. This book asks its users to leave well-trodden paths of linear and comprehensive reading and invites them to read sideways, creating their own orders through associations and relating. Thus, this book is best understood as an intervention, a beginning, an open box, a slim volume that needs expansion and further experiments with ordering by its users.
Author : Vanessa Roeder
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0735230501
An irresistibly cute story about finding the confidence to be yourself, starring a turtle in search of the perfect shell. Terrance the turtle was born without a shell, so he uses a cardboard box instead. Terrance loves his box. It keeps him dry on soggy days, safe from snooping strangers, and is big enough to cozy up with a friend. But when another turtle points out that Terrance's shell is, well, weird, he begins to wonder whether there might be a better shell out there... Eventually, and through much trial and error, Terrance learns that there's nothing wrong with being different--especially when it comes to being yourself.
Author : T.C. Boyle
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062673408
While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a penetrating social consciousness to produce raucous, poignant, and expansive short stories defined by an inimitable voice. From the collection's title story, featuring a Halcom X1520 Relive Box that allows users to experience anew almost any moment from their past to "The Five-Pound Burrito," the tale of a man aiming to build the biggest burrito in town, the twelve stories in this collection speak to the humor, the pathos, and the struggle that is part of being human while relishing the whimsy of wordplay and the power of a story well told. In stories that span a variety of styles and genres, Boyle addresses the enduring concerns of the human mind and heart while taking on timely social concerns. The Relive Box is an exuberant, linguistically dazzling effort from a "vibrant sensibility fully engaged with American society." (The New York Times)
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2023-03-09
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The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson. The others were The Wrecker (1892) and The Ebb-Tide (1894). 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. A film adaptation, also titled The Wrong Box, was released in 1966, and a musical in 2002. Rudyard Kipling, in a letter to his friend Edmonia Hill (dated September 17, 1889), praised the novel: I have got R.L. Stevenson's In the Wrong Box 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. The Wrong Box was filmed in 1966 starring Michael Caine. The novel was also adapted as a stage musical in 2002, and a studio cast recording of the show was released in August 2013. (Wikipedia.org)
Author : Lloyd Osbourne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2022-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 336840282X
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Robert Louis Osbourne, Lloyd Stevenson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732681858
Reproduction of the original: The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
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ISBN : 9780666540614
Excerpt from The Wrong Box Nothing like a little judicious levity, says Michael Finsbury in the text: nor can any better excuse be found for the volume in the reader's hand. The authors can but add that one of them is old enough to be ashamed of himself, and the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.