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