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Author Kiernan, Denise, author.

Title The last castle : the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home / Denise Kiernan.

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  LP BIO VANDERBILT    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Large Print Materials  LARGE PRINT 975.6 KIE    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  LP 975.688 KIE    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 665 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium large print (16 point) rda
Series Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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 tress -- 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.
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.
Subject Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.) -- History.
Vanderbilt, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, 1873-1958.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914.
Vanderbilt, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, 1873-1958.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914.
Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.) -- History.
Large type books.
Large type books.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9781432848231 (hardback)
1432848232 (hardback)
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