Literary Significance and Reception
Rudyard Kipling, in a letter to his friend Edmonia Hill (dated September 17, 1889), praised the novel:
I have got R.L. Stevenson's In the Wrong Box and laughed over it dementedly when I read it. That man has only one lung but he makes you laugh with all your whole inside.Read more about this topic: The Wrong Box (novel)
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