Timeline
Lifetime:
1868 -
1947
Passed: ≈
77 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Lloyd Osbourne
Books by Lloyd Osbourne
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...
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...