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  • The Pageant of England (Complete Plantagenets Series)

    Conquering Family, Magnificent Century, Three Edwards, Last Plantagenets

    The Pageant of England is a four volume collection by Thomas B. Costain which covers the late medieval history of England. The series starts with the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 and closes with the death of Richard III at Bosworth. George R. R. Martin has cited this collection as an influence on his book Fire and Blood, part of Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. The ... Read more

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  • The Silver Chalice

    The Silver Chalice is the fictional story set in the first century A.D. There are many early biblical & historical figures: Luke, Peter, Joseph of Arimathea, Simon Magus & his companion Helena.The story is mainly about a young silversmith, Basil, who, after being robbed of his inheritance, and sold into slavery is asked by the apostle Luke to create a holder for the cup Jesus used at the Last ... Read more

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  • The Pageant of England (Complete Plantagenets Series)

    Enriched edition. Conquering Family, Magnificent Century, Three Edwards, Last Plantagenets

    In "The Pageant of England," Thomas B. Costain offers a comprehensive narrative woven through the tumultuous history of the Plantagenets, a royal dynasty that shaped the very fabric of England from the 12th to the 15th century. With his engaging prose and vivid storytelling, Costain balances rigorous historical detail with a flair for drama, making the era accessible to both scholars and casual ... Read more

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  • The Tontine, Volume 2

    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 ... Read more

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  • The Tontine, Volume 1

    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 ... Read more

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  • High Towers

    Historical romance with a new setting for the author of The Black Rose and other popular novels. This time the master of historical detail has taken the New World instead of the Old -- in a period paralleling that used in The Moneyman to some extent. It is set in New France, from Montreal to New Orleans--with the central characters the Le Moynes. ... Read more

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  • For My Great Folly

    The story of a young scholar who leaves his books to join a pirate ship—and achieves manhood fighting side by side with the legendary buccaneer John Ward. For My Great Folly re-creates the fascinating era of English pirates who waged a private war with Spain in the seventeenth century and where the English sailors sought Spanish gold on the high seas during Stuart England under James I. ... Read more

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  • The Silver Chalice

    Basil of Antioch, a young and skilled artisan freed from slavery, braves the perils of Christian persecution, the sorcery of the infamous Simon the Magician, and even the ire of Roman Emperor Nero, while diverted by the charms of two beautiful women, one good and one evil... How does he come in touch with THE SILVER CHALICE? This is the great and moving epic of the Cup of the Last Supper from ... Read more

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  • The Last Plantagenets

    Details the developments of the reigns of England's monarchs. Here are some of history's most spectacular kings and queens - and a brilliant probing of the greatest royal mystery of all time, the death of the two boy princes in the Tower of London! ... Read more

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  • Below the Salt

    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 ... Read more

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  • The Black Rose

    A tale of romance and adventure, sweeping through the heart of the fabulous Mongol Empire to the golden land of Far Cathay. The story of how Walter followed Maryam to the fabled Kinsai, lost her and found her again, makes a superb and stirring romance, filled with the vivid color and adventure of medieval England and age-old exotic empires of the East! ... Read more

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  • The Conquering Family

    Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216.The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and people, comes to life through Costain's storytelling skill and historical imagination ... Read more

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