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Title: The Devil's Law-Case (New Mermaid Series) by John Webster, Elizabeth M. Brennan ISBN: 0-393-90033-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.40 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Brilliant and addicting
Comment: The last installment of the "A History of the Plantagenents" succeeds admirably. Costain has a way of transferring is love and excitement of a subject onto his pages. It's a method that has yet to be rivaled. He gives each character a distinct personality no matter how trivial. William Caxton being a prime example. About half the book is concentrated on Richard II, which is fine because most historians either concentrate on the Black Prince or Henry V and skip over him. Here we see a sympathetic monarch who was easily bullied and who made some bad decisions early in his reign. After Richard II, he continues on through the kings until Richard III. Here he breaks protocol and gives evidence in defense of Shakespeare hunchback, citing Tudor propaganda as the catalyst. Normally, Costain is careful to present detailed accounts of both sides to an arguement, but here he takes a stance. It is quite refreshing and readers will eat it up. Highly recommended as well as the others in the series. My uncle gave me these books and I plan on returning the favor when the next generation comes my way. Treasure these.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Last Plantagenets
Comment: English History at it's finest. You feel as if you are there with these people, living their lives. Always in good form, this is one of Costain's best.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good historian; good storyteller
Comment: Mr. Costain is a very good historian. His scholarship is thorough and his conclusions are always logically wrought and sometimes surprising. His sensibilities are surprisingly contemporary, although I would not term him a "revisionist," (he wrote this history in the 1950s). For example, in his defense of Richard III (in this, the final book in this four-volume history) he travails against conventional opinion to demonstrate why King Richard was, indeed, not the Richard III of Thomas More as popularized by Shakespeare and held true to this day. And in the first volume, the author dashes myth and idle folklore to side with those historians who portray Eleanor of Aquitaine as the wise and effective check on Henry II and her sons that, she no doubt was. In so doing he disperses, through well-reasoned argument, the rumors and "Entertainment-Tonight" kind of fluff (History-Lite) that many still believe. I had been told these four volumes were classics. After reading them, but without being a scholar of history, I think those critical readers might be right. Certainly, Mr. Costain opened my eyes to a different kind of history telling, one in which an historian does not hesitate to conjecture or opine openly and to honestly make his case and then leave it for a reader's judgement. From front to back, from first through fourth volumes, this is a valuable and pleasurable experience. Mr Costain, presents, argues, harangues convention and, always entertains with a use of the language that is as sharp as his reasoning and as precise as his scholarship. Mr. Costain is a very good story-teller.
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Title: The Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain ISBN: 1568497016 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.95 |
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Title: Below the Salt by Thomas B. Costain ISBN: 038504884X Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: August, 1981 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain ISBN: 1568497024 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: High Towers by Thomas B. Costain ISBN: 0385041942 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: June, 1949 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Last Love by Thomas B. Costain ISBN: 0385005660 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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