Quotes from book
The Wrong Box

Name: The Wrong Box
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

“Do you know what the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina? It's a long time between drinks, observed that powerful thinker.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box, ch. 8.

“Nothing like a little judicious levity.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box, ch. 7 (1889).

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