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Lifetime: 1868 - 1947 Passed: ≈ 77 years ago

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Lloyd Osbourne

Books by Lloyd Osbourne

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Wrong Box

Comedy Fiction Humour Novel
Family 19th century Comedy Inheritance Farce England Tontine Train crash Missing persons Dead bodies

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 rece...

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Ebb-Tide

Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a plentif...