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Thomas B. Costain (1885–1965)

Autore di The Silver Chalice

45+ opere 8,016 membri 110 recensioni 13 preferito

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Opere di Thomas B. Costain

The Silver Chalice (1952) 1,365 copie
The Last Plantagenets (1962) — Autore — 676 copie
La rosa nera (1945) 578 copie
The Three Edwards (1958) — Autore — 556 copie
The Magnificent Century (1951) — Autore — 529 copie
The Conquering Family (1951) — Autore — 501 copie
Below the Salt (1957) 342 copie
The Darkness and the Dawn (1959) 247 copie
The Tontine [Complete] (1901) — Autore — 221 copie
High Towers (1949) 212 copie
William the Conqueror (1959) 201 copie
Stories to Remember {complete} (1956) — A cura di — 181 copie
The Mississippi Bubble (1902) 166 copie
Son of a Hundred Kings (1950) 165 copie
The Moneyman (1947) — Autore — 159 copie
Ride with Me (1944) 154 copie
Stories to Remember, Volume I (1956) — A cura di — 147 copie
30 Stories to Remember (1962) — A cura di — 136 copie
Read With Me (1965) — A cura di — 129 copie
The Last Love (1963) 129 copie
Stories to Remember, Volume II (1956) — A cura di — 126 copie
The Conquerors (The Pageant of England) (1949) — Autore — 123 copie
A History of the Plantagenets (1949) — Autore — 98 copie
The Tontine [Volume 2] (1955) — Autore — 96 copie
More Stories to Remember, Volume II (1958) — A cura di — 94 copie
More Stories to Remember, Volume I (1958) — A cura di — 84 copie
The Tontine [Volume 1] (1955) 83 copie
The Chord of Steel (1960) 67 copie
More Stories to Remember, Volumes I & II (1958) — A cura di — 57 copie
For My Great Folly (1942) — Autore — 57 copie
XII Twelve Short Novels (1961) — A cura di — 34 copie
For My Great Folly [and] The Moneyman (1947) — Autore — 31 copie
The Silver Chalice [1954 film] (1952) — Original book — 17 copie
More Stories to Remember, Volume IV (1958) — A cura di — 8 copie
More Stories to Remember, Volume III (1958) — A cura di — 8 copie
For My Great Folly (abridged) — Autore — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Costain, Thomas Bertram
Data di nascita
1885-05-08
Data di morte
1965-10-08
Luogo di sepoltura
Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
Canada (birth)
USA (naturalized)
Luogo di nascita
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Luogo di morte
New York, New York, USA
Causa della morte
heart attack
Luogo di residenza
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
New York, New York, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Istruzione
Brantford Collegiate Institute
Attività lavorative
newspaper editor
historian
university professor
historical novelist
journalist
Relazioni
Haycraft, Molly Costain (daughter)
Organizzazioni
Maclean's
The Saturday Evening Post
Premi e riconoscimenti
Doctor of Letters, University of Western Ontario
Gold medallion, Canadian Club of New York
Breve biografia
Thomas B. Costain

was born
in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and attended high school at the Brantford Collegiate Institute. Before graduating from high school, he had already written four novels, none of which were accepted for publication.

In 1902, he had his first literary success when the Brantford Courier published a mystery story of his, and he became a reporter at the paper at age 17. He later was an editor at the Guelph Daily Mercury and the Maclean Publishing Group. In 1914, he became a staff writer for, and later editor of, Maclean's Magazine. His work there brought him to the attention of The Saturday Evening Post in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he served as fiction editor for 14 years.

In 1920, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He worked for Doubleday Books as an editor from 1939 to 1946. He also was the head of 20th Century Fox’s story development department from 1934 to 1942. Costain was 57 years old when he published his first historical novel, For My Great Folly (1942), about the 17th-century rivalry between England and Spain. It was an immediate bestseller, and Costain was soon able to retire from Doubleday to become a full-time writer. In the years that followed, he published books almost annually, and his vivid and carefully researched stories continued to be hits with the public. The best-known of his works are The Black Rose (1945), which was adapted into a film starring Tyrone Power, and The Silver Chalice (1952), also made into a film. In addition, Costain utilized his outstanding abilities to make history compelling to produce well-received nonfiction histories, including a four-volume series on the English Plantagenet dynasty, The Conquering Family (1949), The Magnificent Century (1951), The Three Edwards (1958), and The Last Plantagenets (1962). Costain married Ida Randolph Spragge in 1910, and the couple had two children, one of whom was Molly Costain Haycraft, who also became an historical novelist.

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I really enjoyed almost all of the stories in this collection. The different writing style were very interesting. Several were from much older timeframes than I normally encounter. I found some new authors to read and I'm sure I will be re-reading a few of the stories.
 
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RuthInman123 | 2 altre recensioni | Mar 12, 2024 |
On the day after the battle of Waterloo, a number of people set up a fund, the interest on the principle being shared among the surviving investors. This device allows Costain to explore nineteenth century society and indulge in a variety of novelistic sub-genres. It was low sress to write, and gave the author a chance to show his skill level. I don't recall it as being particularly striking to an adolescent living on the canadian prairies.
 
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DinadansFriend | 1 altra recensione | Feb 10, 2024 |
The books of Thomas B. Costain, were a rare success in the USa by a Canadian Writer. This is the story of the chief financial minister of Charles VII, the King of France (r. 1422 - 1461), Jacques Coeur 1395? - 1456. Coeur was a merchant on the multi national level in the Meditteranean. He who amassed so great a fortune that he had it confiscated by the French rown. costain plays up Coeur's relationship with Agnes Sorel, the mistress of the French King Charles VII, who was aided by Joan of Arc. The love story is conventional, but as Jacques was convicted of poisoning that lady by slanderers, rather fanciful.… (altro)
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DinadansFriend | 1 altra recensione | Dec 8, 2023 |
A decent story that concerns Attila the Hun, the declining Roman Empire and certain tribes that had been subjugated by the conqueror - centered on a man taken prisoner by the Romans, who escapes and goes into service for Attila - there is a lackluster love interest - nothing too compelling - his "The Black Rose" is a much better read.
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BayanX | 6 altre recensioni | Jul 16, 2023 |

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Statistiche

Opere
45
Opere correlate
14
Utenti
8,016
Popolarità
#3,021
Voto
3.8
Recensioni
110
ISBN
128
Lingue
8
Preferito da
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