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Thomas B. Costain (1885–1965)

Autor de El cáliz de plata : novela

45+ Obras 8,022 Miembros 110 Reseñas 13 Preferidas

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Series

Obras de Thomas B. Costain

El cáliz de plata : novela (1952) 1,365 copias
The Last Plantagenets (1962) — Autor — 677 copias
The Black Rose (1945) 579 copias
The Three Edwards (1958) — Autor — 556 copias
The Magnificent Century (1951) — Autor — 529 copias
The Conquering Family (1951) — Autor — 501 copias
Below the Salt (1957) 343 copias
The Darkness and the Dawn (1959) 247 copias
The Tontine [Complete] (1901) — Autor — 221 copias
High Towers (1949) 212 copias
William the Conqueror (1959) 202 copias
Stories to Remember {complete} (1956) — Editor — 181 copias
The Mississippi Bubble (1902) 167 copias
Son of a Hundred Kings (1950) 165 copias
The Moneyman (1947) — Autor — 159 copias
Ride with Me (1944) 154 copias
Stories to Remember, Volume I (1956) — Editor — 147 copias
30 Stories to Remember (1962) — Editor — 136 copias
Read With Me (1965) — Editor — 129 copias
The Last Love (1963) 129 copias
Stories to Remember, Volume II (1956) — Editor — 126 copias
The Conquerors (The Pageant of England) (1949) — Autor — 123 copias
A History of the Plantagenets (1949) — Autor — 98 copias
The Tontine [Volume 2] (1955) — Autor — 96 copias
More Stories to Remember, Volume II (1958) — Editor — 94 copias
More Stories to Remember, Volume I (1958) — Editor — 84 copias
The Tontine [Volume 1] (1955) 83 copias
The Chord of Steel (1960) 66 copias
More Stories to Remember, Volumes I & II (1958) — Editor — 57 copias
For My Great Folly (1942) — Autor — 57 copias
XII Twelve Short Novels (1961) — Editor — 34 copias
For My Great Folly [and] The Moneyman (1947) — Autor — 31 copias
The Silver Chalice [1954 film] (1952) — Original book — 17 copias
More Stories to Remember, Volume IV (1958) — Editor — 8 copias
More Stories to Remember, Volume III (1958) — Editor — 8 copias
For My Great Folly (abridged) — Autor — 1 copia

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Conocimiento común

Nombre legal
Costain, Thomas Bertram
Fecha de nacimiento
1885-05-08
Fecha de fallecimiento
1965-10-08
Lugar de sepultura
Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Canada (birth)
USA (naturalized)
Lugar de nacimiento
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Lugar de fallecimiento
New York, New York, USA
Causa de fallecimiento
heart attack
Lugares de residencia
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
New York, New York, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Educación
Brantford Collegiate Institute
Ocupaciones
newspaper editor
historian
university professor
historical novelist
journalist
Relaciones
Haycraft, Molly Costain (daughter)
Organizaciones
Maclean's
The Saturday Evening Post
Premios y honores
Doctor of Letters, University of Western Ontario
Gold medallion, Canadian Club of New York
Biografía breve
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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En la ciudad de Antioquía, la capital griega de los grandes orfebres de la plata, el joven Basilio es vendido por su padre a un rico comerciante para que pueda seguir desarrollando sus dotes como escultor (...). Lucano, más conocido como San Lucas, el tercer evangelista, logrará su libertad para llevarlo a Jerusalén, a casa de José de Arimatea, donde recibirá el encargo de realizar un molde en plata del sagrado cáliz utilizado en la Ultima Cena y de esculpir a su alrededor las caras de los Apósteles y del mismo Cristo. Acompañado por San Lucas, Basilio peregrinará por el mundo antiguo conociendo la gloria, el hambre, el deshonor y a personajes como Simón el brujo y al mismísimo Nerón en Roma, que fascinado por la belleza de sus obras, tratará de retenerlo en la capital del Imperio Romano.… (más)
 
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Obras
45
También por
14
Miembros
8,022
Popularidad
#3,020
Valoración
3.8
Reseñas
110
ISBNs
128
Idiomas
8
Favorito
13

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