The Tontine--Volume II
Book Details
| Title: | The Tontine--Volume II | ||||||||||
| Author: |
| ||||||||||
| Published: | 1955 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, historical, Family Saga, lottery | ||||||||||
| Description: | In volume II of The Tontine, the multigenerational story of 3 families continues. The number of recipients receiving payouts on the life insurance scheme are dying out and the payouts are becoming more and more substantial. Towards the end, when the recipients become a mere handful, all sorts of betting occurs in the general populace on who will be the last survivor. Who wins the tontine and who loses? [Suggest a different description.] |
||||||||||
| Downloads: | 290 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 491  |
Author Bio for Costain, Thomas B.
Thomas Bertram Costain (May 8, 1885 – October 8, 1965) was a Canadian journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57.
Costain's work is a mixture of commercial history (such as The White and The Gold, a history of New France to around 1720) and fiction that relies heavily on historic events (one review stated it was hard to tell where history leaves off and apocrypha begins). His most popular novel was The Black Rose (1945), centred in the time and actions of Bayan of the Baarin also known as Bayan of the Hundred Eyes. Costain noted in his foreword that he initially intended the book to be about Bayan and Edward I, but became caught up in the legend of Thomas a Becket's parents: an English knight married to an Eastern girl. The book was a selection of the Literary Guild with a first printing of 650,000 copies and sold over two million copies in its first year.
His research led him to believe that Richard III was a great monarch tarred by conspiracies, after his death, with the murder of the princes in the tower. Costain supported his theories with documentation, suggesting that the real murderer was Henry VII.
—Wikipedia
Available Formats
| FILE TYPE | LINK | ||
| UTF-8 text | 20210713.txt | ||
| HTML | 20210713.html | ||
| Epub | 20210713.epub | If you cannot open a .mobi file on your mobile device, please use .epub with an appropriate eReader. | |
| Mobi/Kindle | 20210713.mobi | | Not all Kindles or Kindle apps open all .mobi files. |
| PDF (tablet) | 20210713-a5.pdf | ||
| HTML Zip | 20210713-h.zip |
Kindle Direct (New, Experimental)
Send this book direct to your kindle via email. We need your Send-to-Kindle Email address, which can be found by looking in your Kindle device’s Settings page. All kindle email addresses will end in @kindle.com. Note you must add our email server’s address, [email protected], to your Amazon account’s Approved E-mail list. This list may be found on your Amazon account: Your Account→ Manage Your Content and Devices→ Preferences→ Personal Document Settings→ Approved Personal Document E-mail List→ Add a new approved e-mail address.
This book is in the public domain in Canada, and is made available to you DRM-free. You may do whatever you like with this book, but mostly we hope you will read it.
Here at FadedPage and our companion site Distributed Proofreaders Canada, we pride ourselves on producing the best ebooks you can find. Please tell us about any errors you have found in this book, or in the information on this page about this book.