Author : Hawley Smart
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2024-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385405572
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Thomas Bertram Costain
Publisher : London : Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
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 : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2021-11-23T14:14:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1774644967
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 : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Aeterna Classics
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3964541206
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 : Daragh Downes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137518235
This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like John Sutherland and Franco Moretti, this energetically revisionist volume takes advantage of recent large-scale digitisation projects that allow unprecedented access to hitherto neglected literary texts and archives. Blending lively critical engagement with individual texts and close attention to often surprising trends in the production and reception of prose fiction across the Victorian era, this book will be of use to anyone interested in re-evaluating the received meta-narratives of Victorian literary history. With an afterword by John Sutherland
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 1897
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Moshe A. Milevsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107076129
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 : eBookIt.com
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1456636715
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 : B. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230107354
Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.
Author : Ranald Michie
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811270740
This book addresses the divide that exists between the reality of finance and the image it projects. A functioning financial system is an essential feature of a modern economy, providing it with money, credit, capital, and investments. Conversely, those who provide this essential service are neither respected nor trusted. The causes and consequences of this divide is explored using the British experience from 1800 to the present, drawing upon a mixture of factual evidence and contemporary fiction. Nothing of this scale has been attempted before and this is the product of 50 years of research.
