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The last castle : the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home / Denise Kiernan.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection F264.A8 K54 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kiernan, Denise, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.)--History.
- Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.).
- Vanderbilt, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, 1873-1958.
- Vanderbilt, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser.
- Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914.
- Vanderbilt, George Washington.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Touchstone hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Touchstone, 2017.
- Summary:
- Documents the story of the Gilded Age mansion Biltmore, tracing George Vanderbilt's construction of his European-style estate and the efforts of his bride, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, to become its protector in the face of changing fortunes and times.
- Contents:
- A winter's tale
- A lady of the long man rising
- Rhapsody in mauve
- Collaborations and consecrations
- A crossing of some consequence
- New mistress
- Forest for the trees
- Births of the century
- Trials and toymakers
- The more things change
- High and dry
- Final crossings
- Washed away
- Homespun and a great war
- Freedoms and flappers
- Glimpse of a castle
- You might go home again
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-363) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Shober fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kiernan, Denise. author. Last castle
- ISBN:
- 9781476794044
- 1476794049
- 9781476794051
- 1476794057
- OCLC:
- 981761550
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