Thomas Bertram Costain

This, the fourth volume of the author's chronicle of English history entitled The Pageant of England, covers the period from the rule of Richard II to the end of the dynasty in Richard III. A story of intrigue and murder, much of which is still a mystery to historians.

Good morning, Miss Dove / Frances Gray Patton -- Turn about / William Faulkner -- Mary Smith / Booth Tarkington -- Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens -- The suicide club / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Eighteen oak ties / Tim Pridgen -- Ultima Thule / John Galsworthy -- Anty Bligh / John Masefield -- Sam Weller makes his bow / Charles Dickens -- The Croxley master / Arthur Conan Doyle -- François Villon meets a woman / John Erskine -- Father and the cook / Clarence Day, Jr. -- The grave grass quivers / Mackinlay Kantor -- The king waits / Clemence Dane -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The bowmen / Arthur Machen -- [The murder of Roger Ackroyd ]( Agatha Christie.

Calling card of the infamous Romney Fox Smuggler, scoundrel, probable traitor, and spy, he plundered the rich and gave to the poor. Men toasted him, women whispered his name like a prayer. Deserted and deceived, exquisite Tess Leighton, emerald-eyed temptress, would do anything to save her family estate-even masquerade as the Fox himself.... Dangerous Heroes: The Black Rose (Dangerous Heroes, #1) East Of Forever (re-released as Seducing the Rake) (Dangerous Heroes, #2) The Ruby (re-released as The Tiger's Lady) (Dangerous Heroes, #3)

Lost horizon / James Hilton -- Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather -- The verger / Somerset Maugham -- Jack Still / J.P. Marquand -- The silver mask / Hugh Walpole -- The return of the rangers / Kenneth Roberts -- Old man at the bridge / Ernest Hemingway -- The Cyprian cat / Dorothy L. Sayers -- The call of the wild / Jack London -- The jukebox and the Kallikaks / B.J. Chute -- The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling -- She went by gently / Paul Vincent Carroll -- Tale of my Aunt Jenepher's wooing / Donn Byrne -- Through the veil / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- The old man / Holloway Horn -- The rollicking god / Nunnally Johnson -- Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant -- The lady / Conrad Richter.

Wonderful summer reading for the history buff! Thomas Costain was one of the best writers of historical novels based on fact and research. Thomas Bertram Costain (May 8, 1885 - October 8, 1965) was a Canadian journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57. Originally published by Doubleday in 1959, The Magnificent Century covers Henry III’s long and turbulent reign, from 1216 to 1272. During his lifetime, Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign saw spectacular advancement in the arts, sciences and theology, as well as in government; a magnificent century indeed. The entire series "A History of the Plantagenets" (also "The Pageant of England") includes THE CONQUERING FAMILY, THE MAGNIFICENT CENTURY, THE THREE EDWARDS and THE LAST PLANTAGENETS.

The split second / Daphne du Maurier -- The theft of the Mona Lisa / Karl Decker -- The soldiers' peaches / Stuart Cloete -- A night to remember (from the book) / Walter Lord -- Aerial football: the new game / George Bernard Shaw -- Courtship of my cousin Doone / Walter D. Edmonds -- Hotel room (from the book) / Cornell Woolrich -- [Two soldiers]( / William Faulkner -- How we kept Mother's Day / Stephen Leacock -- The witness for the prosecution / Agatha Christie -- The incredible journey / Sheila Burnford -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- Act one (from the book) / Moss Hart -- The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Gigi / Colette -- The little minister (from the book) / James M. Barrie -- The alien corn / W. Somerset Maugham -- A profile in courage (from the book) / John F. Kennedy -- The company of the Marjolaine / John Buchan -- First day finish (from The friendly persuasion) / Jessamyn West -- [The adventure of the priory school]( / Arthur Conan Doyle -- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- Death and Professor Raikes / Alice Duer Miller -- Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson -- Mrs. 'arris goes to Paris / Paul Gallico -- "They" / Rudyard Kipling -- Son of a tinker / Maurice Walsh -- History lesson / Arthur C. Clarke -- The truth about the flood (from The bible as history) / Werner Keller -- A candle for St. Jude / Rumer Godden.

THE THREE EDWARDS, third in Thomas B. Costain's survey of Britain under the Plantagenets, covers the years between 1272 and 1377 when three Edwards ruled England. Edward I brought England out of the Middle Ages. Edward II had a tragic reign but gave his country Edward III, who ruled gloriously, if violently. A History of the Plantagenets includes THE CONQUERING FAMILY, THE MAGNIFICENT CENTURY, THE THREE EDWARDS and THE LAST PLANTAGENETS.

This book revolves around Ludar Prentice, a young boy who traveled to Canada to live with his father only to find him dead. As the story progresses, Ludar is determined to marry Tony, the beautiful girl he has loved since childhood, and discover his secret indentity of the past.

Historical romance about the adventures of the Le Moyne family of Montreal, who founded the city of New Orleans.

Against a sweeping panorama of England and the Continent--and the muted thunder of far-off war--Thomas B. Costain has etched in the glass of history a moving tale of adventure and enduring love. Francis Ellery is a young, courageous newspaper editor who publishes scathing broadsides against the rampaging Napoleon. One foggy London night he loses his heart to the beautiful Gabrielle de Salle, one of a group of exiled French aristocrats. But as the Continent becomes engulfed in the Napoleonic wars, Francis must part from her. He serves on the battlefronts of Spain and Russia as a war correspondent, surviving many colorful and bloody conflicts. And as romance and intrigue swirl around Francis and Gabrielle, their destinies are swept into a vortex of crises and betrayal, spurred on by a hero's rousing cry.