"This novel [is] based on legends of the years following Christ's crucifixion. [It] describes the life of Basil, the artisan who fashioned the silver chalice, a frame meant to hold the ... cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper"--Fiction catalog.
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Publisher:
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1952.
Edition:
1st ed..
ISBN:
9780307800602
0307800601
0307800601
Branch Call Number:
ELECTRONIC RESOURCE
Characteristics:
1 online resource (533 p.)
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Add a CommentExcellent book. I couldn't put it down.
Whether you're looking for fiction or non-fiction, Thomas B. Costain is the go-to guy for historical literature, especially pertaining to early British history and the Plantagenets. Silver Chalice, however is a fictional work about the grail of Christianity and is one of Costain's more widely read books.