The Wrong Box: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Wrong Box, credited to Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Wrong Box, by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Read by Andy Minter. The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have died. That last subscriber then receives the whole of the proceeds). The story involves the last two such survivors and their relations, a train crash, missing uncles, surplus dead bodies and innocent bystanders. A farce really. (Summary by AJM)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Wrong Box
• Author credits: Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 6:20:02

Catalogue topics

• osborne
• stevenson
• adventure
• farce
• humor
• comedy

Track guide

1. 01 - In which Morris Suspects — 27:48
2. 02 - In Which Morris Takes Action — 30:36
3. 03 - The Lecturer at Large — 23:08
4. 04 - The Magistrate in the Luggage Van — 9:07
5. 05 - Mr Gideon Forsyth and the Gigantic Box — 19:12
6. 06 - The Tribulations of Morris - Part the First — 30:37
7. 07 - In Which William Dent Pitman Takes Legal Advice — 25:14
8. 08 - In Which Michael Finsbury Enjoys a Holiday — 38:22
9. 09 - Glorious Conclusion of Michael Finsbury's Holiday — 31:15
10. 10 - Gideon Forsyth and the Broadwood Grand — 19:26
11. 11 - The Maestro Jimson — 33:22
12. 12 - Positively the Last Appearance of the Broadwood Grand — 19:53
13. 13 - The Tribulations of Morris - Part the Second — 20:49
14. 14 - William Bent Pitman Hears of Something to his Advantage — 28:45
15. 15 - The Return of the Great Vance — 13:47
16. 16 - Final Adjustment of the Leather Business — 8:47

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