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The Tontine Audiobook

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Read By: David Case, Frederick Davidson Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 27.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 20.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2010 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780307878601

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

376

Longest Chapter Length:

12:40 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

07 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

06:32 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

9

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Publisher Description

Tontine is a form of gambling - part lottery, part insurance. It begins with the Day the Battle of Waterloo was fought and ends at the closing of the 19th Century.

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    " I read this when I was pretty young. <br/>Even then I found it interesting, realistic, and the characters believable. I reacll feeling like I'd walked back in time. "

    — Lafang, 11/16/2008

About Thomas B. Costain

Thomas B. Costain (1885–1965) was born in Brantford. He attended high school there as well as the Brantford Collegiate Institute. His career as a writer began in 1902 when the Brantford Courier accepted a mystery story from him, and he became a reporter there (for five dollars a week). He was an editor at the Guelph Daily Mercury between 1908 and 1910. He married Ida Randolph Spragge on January 12, 1910 and they had two children. Beginning in 1914, he was a staff writer for and, from 1917, editor of Toronto-based Maclean’s magazine. His success there brought him to the attention of the Saturday Evening Post in New York City where he was fiction editor for fourteen years.

About the Narrators

David Case was a distinguished narrator who recorded over 700 audiobooks, was nominated for a Grammy Award, and received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narrations. AudioFile magazine named him a Golden Voice.

Frederick Davidson (1932–2005), also known as David Case, was one of the most prolific readers in the audiobook industry, recording more than eight hundred audiobooks in his lifetime, including over two hundred for Blackstone Audio. Born in London, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and performed for many years in radio plays for the British Broadcasting Company before coming to America in 1976. He received AudioFile’s Golden Voice Award and numerous Earphones Awards and was nominated for a Grammy for his readings.