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Thomas B. Costain (1885–1965)

Auteur van The Silver Chalice

45+ Werken 8,022 Leden 110 Besprekingen Favoriet van 13 leden

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The Silver Chalice (1952) 1,365 exemplaren
The Last Plantagenets (1962) — Auteur — 677 exemplaren
The Black Rose (1945) 579 exemplaren
The Three Edwards (1958) — Auteur — 556 exemplaren
The Magnificent Century (1951) — Auteur — 529 exemplaren
The Conquering Family (1951) — Auteur — 501 exemplaren
Below the Salt (1957) 343 exemplaren
The Darkness and the Dawn (1959) 247 exemplaren
The Tontine [Complete] (1901) — Auteur — 221 exemplaren
High Towers (1949) 212 exemplaren
William the Conqueror (1959) 202 exemplaren
Stories to Remember {complete} (1956) — Redacteur — 181 exemplaren
The Mississippi Bubble (1902) 167 exemplaren
Son of a Hundred Kings (1950) 165 exemplaren
Muntmeester des konings (1947) — Auteur — 159 exemplaren
Ride with Me (1944) 154 exemplaren
Stories to Remember, Volume I (1956) — Redacteur — 147 exemplaren
30 Stories to Remember (1962) — Redacteur — 136 exemplaren
Read With Me (1965) — Redacteur — 129 exemplaren
The Last Love (1963) 129 exemplaren
Stories to Remember, Volume II (1956) — Redacteur — 126 exemplaren
The Conquerors (The Pageant of England) (1949) — Auteur — 123 exemplaren
A History of the Plantagenets (1949) — Auteur — 98 exemplaren
Het Leven Als Inzet Deel 2: Een Vrouw Wint (1955) — Auteur — 96 exemplaren
More Stories to Remember, Volume II (1958) — Redacteur — 94 exemplaren
More Stories to Remember, Volume I (1958) — Redacteur — 84 exemplaren
The Chord of Steel (1960) 66 exemplaren
More Stories to Remember, Volumes I & II (1958) — Redacteur — 57 exemplaren
For My Great Folly (1942) — Auteur — 57 exemplaren
XII Twelve Short Novels (1961) — Redacteur — 34 exemplaren
For My Great Folly [and] The Moneyman (1947) — Auteur — 31 exemplaren
The Silver Chalice [1954 film] (1952) — Original book — 17 exemplaren
Joshua: Leader of a United People (1948) 12 exemplaren
More Stories to Remember, Volume IV (1958) — Redacteur — 8 exemplaren
More Stories to Remember, Volume III (1958) — Redacteur — 8 exemplaren
For My Great Folly, First Part (1998) 3 exemplaren
For My Great Folly, Second Part (1999) 2 exemplaren
For My Great Folly (abridged) — Auteur — 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam
Costain, Thomas Bertram
Geboortedatum
1885-05-08
Overlijdensdatum
1965-10-08
Graflocatie
Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
Canada (birth)
USA (naturalized)
Geboorteplaats
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Plaats van overlijden
New York, New York, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
heart attack
Woonplaatsen
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
New York, New York, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Opleiding
Brantford Collegiate Institute
Beroepen
newspaper editor
historian
university professor
historical novelist
journalist
Relaties
Haycraft, Molly Costain (daughter)
Organisaties
Maclean's
The Saturday Evening Post
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Doctor of Letters, University of Western Ontario
Gold medallion, Canadian Club of New York
Korte biografie
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 andere besprekingen | 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 andere bespreking | 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.… (meer)
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DinadansFriend | 1 andere bespreking | 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 andere besprekingen | Jul 16, 2023 |

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Werken
45
Ook door
14
Leden
8,022
Populariteit
#3,020
Waardering
3.8
Besprekingen
110
ISBNs
128
Talen
8
Favoriet
13

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