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The Tontine (Volume II) [Illustrated] (1955)
The Tontine - Volume II - Illustrated - 1955 Author:Thomas B. Costain This story of a tontine (a strange and enticing form of gamble, part lottery, part insurance) begins with the day when the battle of Waterloo was fought and ends when the nineteenth century was drawing to close... It is abive everything else, therefore, a story of great variety: for although it marches briskly ahead with the interweaving narrati... more »ve of the lives of its main characters, it takes time also to linger in the backwash of change, in the dingy squares, the inns, the coaching yards and railway stations, in the green rooms and courts and jails of a colorful century.« less