The Last Castle
The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home
[Grand Haven, Michigan] : Brilliance Audio, [2017]
Format: Audiobook on CD
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 8 audio discs (10 hr., 21 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Tells the story of how Biltmore--the magnificent Gilded Age mansion and largest, grandest house in America--flourished, faltered, and ultimately endured.
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.
Subjects:
Vanderbilt, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, 1873-1958.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914.
Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.) -- History.
Vanderbilt, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, 1873-1958.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914.
Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.) -- History.
ISBN:
9781501238246
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
CD HISTORY Kie | Sandhills Indoors | Book on CD Nonfiction | In |
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Performed by Denise Kiernan.
Performed by Denise Kiernan.