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Author: Thomas B. Costain Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions ISBN: 1774644967 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 702
Book Description
Spanning 60+ years, beginning on the day Waterloo was won, it is a multigenerational story of 3 families during the Industrial Revolution. Lots of detailed descriptions of life among the varied social classes, it has been likened to stories by Dickens. It’s a very good historical fiction. A tontine is a life insurance scheme, stratified by age. Enrollees received payouts after an initial growth period, the amounts determined by the number of living recipients. Over time, as participants died, the payouts became more and more substantial. Towards the end, when the recipients became a mere handful, all sorts of betting occurred in the general populace on who would be the last survivor.
Author: Thomas B. Costain Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions ISBN: 1774644967 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 702
Book Description
Spanning 60+ years, beginning on the day Waterloo was won, it is a multigenerational story of 3 families during the Industrial Revolution. Lots of detailed descriptions of life among the varied social classes, it has been likened to stories by Dickens. It’s a very good historical fiction. A tontine is a life insurance scheme, stratified by age. Enrollees received payouts after an initial growth period, the amounts determined by the number of living recipients. Over time, as participants died, the payouts became more and more substantial. Towards the end, when the recipients became a mere handful, all sorts of betting occurred in the general populace on who would be the last survivor.
Author: Thomas Bertram Costain Publisher: London : Collins ISBN: Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A London con man creates a tontine wherein the surviving members receive interest on their investment, while the capital, after some years, is to go to the care of veterans.
Author: Thomas B. Costain Publisher: eBookIt.com ISBN: 1456636715 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 633
Book Description
Richard O'Rawn had lived a long, full life. He had attained material success. He had served his country well in the United States Senate, loved and respected by his constituents and the rest of the nation. Now that his life was almost at an end, Senator O'Rawn had to share the mystery he had kept secret for so many years with someone else. It was a mystery set in lusty Plantagenet England and revolving around Eleanor of Aquitaine, her granddaughter--the beautiful "lost princess"--and the historic signing of the Magna Carta. Together with a young American writer, Richard O'Rawn would take his last journey back through the centuries--a journey rich with intrigue, romance, and adventure.
Author: Moshe A. Milevsky Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107076129 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 275
Book Description
The book reviews the finance, economics, and history of tontines, and argues that they should be resurrected in the twenty-first century.
Author: Thomas B. Costain Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions ISBN: 1774644975 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 700
Book 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?
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher: Aeterna Classics ISBN: 3964541206 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
A black comic novel about the last remaining survivors of a tontine - a group life-insurance policy in which the last surviving member stands to receive a fortune. It is a farcical, eccentric and brilliantly written piece of work.
Author: Thomas B. Costain Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 542
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The White and the Gold" (The French Regime in Canada [Canadian History Series #1]) by Thomas B. Costain. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Thomas B. Costain
Author: Thomas B. Costain
Author: Thomas Bertram Costain
Author: Thomas B. Costain
Author: Moshe A. Milevsky
Author: Thomas B. Costain
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Henry Hawley Smart
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Thomas B. Costain
Author: Thomas Bertram Costain