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Author : Hawley Smart
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385405572
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Great Tontine: A Novel written by Hawley Smart and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Thomas Bertram Costain
Publisher : London : Collins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Tontine written by Thomas Bertram Costain and published by London : Collins. This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1774644967
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Tontine, Volume 1 written by Thomas B. Costain and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-23T14:14:00Z with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 3964541206
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (645 download)
Download or read book The Wrong Box written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Aeterna Classics. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1137518235
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon written by Daragh Downes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Wrong Box written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456636715
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Below the Salt written by Thomas B. Costain and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0230107354
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery written by B. Murphy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9811270740
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book War On Wealth, The: Fact And Fiction In British Finance Since 1800 written by Ranald Michie and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Nathan Allen
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3739664452
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (396 download)
Download or read book All Against All written by Nathan Allen and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One rule. One winner. One hundred million dollars. A group of random strangers are invited to take part in a mysterious lottery with an intriguing premise. Twenty-seven accept the offer. But what begins as an unusual social experiment quickly descends into something much more sinister. The contestants receive more than they bargained for, and the dark side of human nature reveals itself. As the lottery spirals into a life-and-death struggle for survival, Alice Kato is left searching for answers. How far are ordinary people willing to go to win this extraordinary amount of money? Is there anyone she can trust? Is there any way out? And just who exactly is pulling all the strings? Everyone has their price. Most just don't know what it is yet.
Author : Moshe A. Milevsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316407314
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book King William's Tontine written by Moshe A. Milevsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time before bonds, treasury notes, or central banks, there were tontines. These were schemes in which a group of investors lent money to a government, corporation, or king, similar to a modern-day loan syndicate. But unlike conventional debt, periodic interest payments were distributed only to survivors. As tontine nominees died, the income of survivors correspondingly increased. Morbid, perhaps, but this was one of the earliest forms of longevity insurance in which the pool shared the risk. Moshe A. Milevsky tells the story of the first tontine issued by the English government in 1693, known as King William's tontine, intended to finance the war against French King Louis XIV. He explains how tontines work, the financial and economic thinking behind them, as well as why they fell into disrepute. Milevsky concludes with a provocative argument that suitably modified tontines should be resurrected for twenty-first-century retirement income planning.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hawley Smart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Great Tontine written by Hawley Smart and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew McDiarmid
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040251625
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Tontine: A History written by Andrew McDiarmid and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the last decades of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the twentieth, the tontine, in one form or another, was a ubiquitous financial instrument. As a revenue-raising tool of governments it supported the cost of war, and as a private capital-raising instrument it provided funding for civic improvement and urban development projects. While the tontine is known today mainly through fictional works (Robert Louis Stevenson, Agatha Christie, and The Simpsons among others), this book tells the history of how it evolved from a public revenue-raising scheme into a popular private investment and infrastructure financing tool, before it was displaced by cheaper forms of borrowing. Focusing on the early development of the tontine, and with European and North American case studies, the narrative brings to life the story of a little-understood financial innovation. This concise and engaging book is an ideal introduction to the history of the tontine for all readers interested in financial history.
Author : London St. George, Hanover sq, publ. libr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of books in the lending department of the public library, Buckingham palace road written by London St. George, Hanover sq, publ. libr and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hawley Smart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Great Tontine. A Novel written by Hawley Smart and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
