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Book The Great Tontine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hawley Smart
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1881
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

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:

Book The Great Tontine

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  • Author : Hawley Smart
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1889
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book The Great Tontine written by Hawley Smart and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tontine  Volume 1

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  • Author : Thomas B. Costain
  • Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
  • Release : 2021-11-23T14:14:00Z
  • ISBN : 1774644967
  • Pages : 702 pages

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.

Book The Great Tontine  A Novel

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  • Author : Hawley Smart
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2024-04-07
  • ISBN : 3385405572
  • Pages : 418 pages

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.

Book GREAT TONTINE

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  • Author : HAWLEY. SMART
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781033397947
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book GREAT TONTINE written by HAWLEY. SMART and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Tontine

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  • Author : Hawley Smart
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2016-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781333542641
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book The Great Tontine written by Hawley Smart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Tontine: A Novel Twenty years ago, and men were striving to penetrate the inscrutable mystery of the Road murder - a mystery destined to be solved some few years later, and affording a melancholy instance of to what terrible lengths a morbid, hysterical temperament may carry a maiden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Great Tontine

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  • Author : Hawley Smart
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1800
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Great Tontine written by Hawley Smart and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Tontine

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  • Author : Hawley Smart
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-11-26
  • ISBN : 9783337864804
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book The Great Tontine written by Hawley Smart and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wrong Box

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  • Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Publisher : Aeterna Classics
  • Release : 2018-05-31
  • ISBN : 3964541206
  • Pages : 156 pages

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.

Book King William s Tontine

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.

Book The Great Tontine

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  • Author : Hawley Smart
  • Publisher : Nabu Press
  • Release : 2013-11
  • ISBN : 9781294235668
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book The Great Tontine written by Hawley Smart and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book The Wrong Box

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  • Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1889
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Wrong Box written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge inheritance ignites a murderous family feud. The last living beneficiaries, the two Finsbury Brothers, will stop at nothing to outlive each other-- and win the fortune. Helping the irascible, poverty-stricken Masterman Finsbury is his shy grandson Michael. Opposing them are his eccentric younger brother, Joseph Finsbury, and a pair of greedy nephews, Morris and John.

Book 4 50 from Paddington

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  • Author : Agatha Christie
  • Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781579126933
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book 4 50 from Paddington written by Agatha Christie and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a jaunt to visit her friend Miss Marple, Elspeth McGillicuddy sees a man strangling a woman on a passing train. The police dismiss her observation as imagination, but Miss Marple knows better and decides to search for the corpse on her own.

Book The Tontine

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  • Author : Thomas Bertram Costain
  • Publisher : London : Collins
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

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.

Book Mrs  Jeffries and the Feast of St  Stephen

Download or read book Mrs Jeffries and the Feast of St Stephen written by Emily Brightwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Yuletide dinner in West Brompton should have been a festive occasion, until the host, wealthy Stephen Whitfield, dropped dead before the second course. Now Mrs. Jeffries and the busy sleuths must rally in support of their Inspector?especially since the clues are harder to find than a silver sixpence in a plum pudding.

Book The Tontine

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  • Author : Lawrence Wagger
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2011-04-21
  • ISBN : 1456876538
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Tontine written by Lawrence Wagger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tontine  Volume 2

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  • Author : Thomas B. Costain
  • Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
  • Release : 2021-11-23T00:00:00Z
  • ISBN : 1774644975
  • Pages : 700 pages

Download or read book The Tontine Volume 2 written by Thomas B. Costain and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-23T00:00:00Z with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In volume II of The Tontine, the multigenerational story of 3 families continues. The number of recipients receiving payouts on the life insurance scheme are dying out and the payouts are becoming more and more substantial. Towards the end, when the recipients become a mere handful, all sorts of betting occurs in the general populace on who will be the last survivor. Who wins the tontine and who loses?