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House of Stairs

Author : William Sleator
Publisher : Puffin Books
Release Date : 1991-04-01
ISBN 10 : 0140345809
Pages : 180 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (14 downloads)

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The House of Stairs

Author : Barbara Vine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-10-31
ISBN 10 : 9780241968840
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (968 downloads)

Download The House of Stairs PDF Format Full Free by Barbara Vine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Stairs - an unputdownable crime classic from bestselling author Barbara Vine Lizzie hasn't seen her old friend, Bell, for some fourteen years, but when she spots her from a taxi in a London street she jumps out and pursues her despite 'all the terrible things' that passed between them. As Lizzie reveals those events, little by little, the women rekindle their friendship, with terrifying results ... 'This is the third psychological thriller by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine and when I say it surpasses the first two that's really saying something ... Vine has not only produced a quietly smouldering suspense novel but also presents an accurately atmospheric portrayal of London in the heady 60's. Literally unputdownable' Time Out The House of Stairs is a modern masterpiece of the crime genre and will leave you gripped from the first page to the last. If you enjoy the novels of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will love this book. 'The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin 'A superb and original writer' Amanda Craig, Express Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Child's Child.

Life Below Stairs - in the Victorian and Edwardian Country House

Author : Siân Evans
Publisher : National Trust
Release Date : 2013-04-15
ISBN 10 : 9781907892585
Pages : 498 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (892 downloads)

Download Life Below Stairs - in the Victorian and Edwardian Country House PDF Format Full Free by Siân Evans and published by National Trust. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the cook, butler and housekeeper to the footman, lady's maid and nanny, this is a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of some of Britain's grandest houses. An entertaining social history, steering the reader through the minefield of etiquette and hierarchy that kept Britain's great houses running like clockwork. A bygone era is brought vividly to live through letters, journals, interviews, lively descriptions and stunning photography of the places and possessions left behind. The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent ‘in service’ are lying just below the surface of many great houses; the physical evidence can be seen in surviving servants’ quarters, the material of their everyday life, even their uniforms and possessions. This account provides a fascinating glimpse at who's who behind the scenes, from the cook, butler and housekeeper to the footmen, lady's maids, governesses and tutors, nannies and nursemaids. Giving a fascinating insight into the heirarchy within the servant's quarters – from the power-wielding cook to the ever-discreet butler – this guide describes how relationships were forged and changed as the gap between upstairs and downstairs was bridged. Describing their typical working day as well as the holidays, entertainments and pastimes enjoyed on a rare day off, not to mention the whirl of the social season, this previously ‘unwritten history’ recalls vividly the nature of their lives below stairs.

Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames. [11 eds. 2 issues for 1889].

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Release Date : 1889
ISBN 10 : OXFORD:555086906
Pages : 328 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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House of Stairs

Author : William Sleator
Publisher : Turtleback
Release Date : 1991-01
ISBN 10 : 0606049398
Pages : 166 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (66 downloads)

Download House of Stairs PDF Format Full Free by William Sleator and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1991-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five sixteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response.

Stairs

Author : Sylvia Blanc
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2012-05-16
ISBN 10 : 9781136363986
Pages : 242 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (363 downloads)

Download Stairs PDF Format Full Free by Sylvia Blanc and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stairs are a fundamental and universal feature of buildings. The late Alan Blanc had a lifetime's obsession with stairs and steps and provided a definitive reference source that bridges the aesthetic and practical aspects of staircase design. His wife Sylvia, who worked with him on the first edition, presents this updated, abridged version alongside a complimentary web site where the historical elements of the subjects are described and discussed in pictures and diagrams. The book is a practical guide to designing circulation spaces. It is extensively detailed with working drawings and photographs. Construction methods using a variety of materials are discussed as well as the influence of new technology on vertical circulation. The guidance on codes and regulations covers the UK and US. The latest high profile international case studies inspire and inform the reader.

Building Stairs

Author : Andy Engel
Publisher : Taunton Press
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 9781561588923
Pages : 242 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (588 downloads)

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Scandal Above Stairs

Author : Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2018-07-03
ISBN 10 : 9780399585548
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (585 downloads)

Download Scandal Above Stairs PDF Format Full Free by Jennifer Ashley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Death Below Stairs. A mystery of stolen antiquities has Kat Holloway setting aside her apron once again for the intrigues of the upper echelons of Victorian London. Priceless artwork has gone missing from the home of a wealthy baronet, and his wife stands to take the blame. When Kat's employer asks for help in clearing her friend's name, Kat trades her kitchen for the homes of Mayfair's wealthiest families. Soon antiques are disappearing not only from the extravagant households of connoisseurs and collectors, but from the illustrious British Museum. As the thefts increase in frequency, Kat calls upon her friend Daniel McAdam, who has already set himself up in a pawnshop on the Strand as a seedy receiver of stolen goods. When a man is murdered in the shop, Kat must use all of her wits to see that the thieves are caught and justice is done.

Up and Down Stairs

Author : Jeremy Musson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-11-12
ISBN 10 : 9781848543874
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (543 downloads)

Download Up and Down Stairs PDF Format Full Free by Jeremy Musson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes this segregation was broken, as with the famous marriage of a squire to his dairymaid at Uppark. Jeremy Musson captures the voices of the servants who ran these vast houses, and made them work. From unpublished memoirs to letters, wages, newspaper articles, he pieces together their daily lives from the Middle Ages through to the twentieth century. The story of domestic servants is inseparable from the story of the country house as an icon of power, civilisation and luxury. This is particularly true with the great estates such as Chatsworth, Hatfield, Burghley and Wilton. Jeremy Musson looks at how these grand houses were, for centuries, admired and imitated around the world.

The Fall River Murders : The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Author : Jim D. Jordan
Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
Release Date : 2016-09-26
ISBN 10 : 9781365419973
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (419 downloads)

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The House of Stairs

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Release Date : 2011-02-22
ISBN 10 : 9781453214893
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (214 downloads)

Download The House of Stairs PDF Format Full Free by Ruth Rendell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times–bestselling author: A novelist pieces together the murderous past of an old friend—“smoldering suspense . . . literally unputdownable” (Time Out). When writer Lizzie Vetch has tea with her old friend, Bell Sanger, the women are reunited for the first time in nearly two decades. Limbo years, Lizzie calls them, full of “all the terrible things” that passed between them. Specifically, a murder for which Bell served time, and has only recently been released from prison. Seemingly out of kindness, Lizzie agrees to let Bell move back into the House of Stairs, the five-story Notting Hill boardinghouse where, seventeen years ago, a dreadful crime was committed. Maybe here, among the other odd residents, Lizzie can help pull Bell’s life together again. But is it compassion or something else? Because the more Lizzie’s long-suppressed memories are stirred, the more her motives for keeping Bell close are called into question. As for Bell, she has her own reasons for moving back into the House of Stairs with Lizzie. It’s not to put the past behind them. It’s to confront it, step by step. “Revealed in baleful flashbacks, a chilly obsession takes shape, a convicted murderess and a cruel design sidle out of the shadows” (The Observer) in Edgar Award winner Ruth Rendell’s “compelling and disturbing” psychological thriller (The Sunday Times).

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher :
Release Date : 1874
ISBN 10 : LLMC:NYA8IOY8950T
Pages : 1380 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Secret Stairs

Author : Charles Fleming
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Release Date : 2010-04-01
ISBN 10 : 9781595809285
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (89 downloads)

Download Secret Stairs PDF Format Full Free by Charles Fleming and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing walks and detailed maps from throughout the city, Secret Stairs highlights the charms and quirks of a unique feature of the Los Angeles landscape, and chronicles the geographical, architectural, and historical aspects of the city’s staircases, as well as of the neighborhoods in which the steps are located. From strolling through the classic La Loma neighborhood in Pasadena to walking the Sunset Junction Loop in Silver Lake, to taking the Beachwood Canyon hike through “Hollywoodland” to enjoying the magnificent ocean views from the Castellammare district in Pacific Palisades, Secret Stairs takes you on a tour of the staircases all across the City of Angels. The circular walks, rated for duration and difficulty, deliver tales of historic homes and their fascinating inhabitants, bits of unusual local trivia, and stories of the neighborhoods surrounding the stairs. That’s where William Faulkner was living when he wrote the screenplay for To Have and Have Not; that house was designed by Neutra; over there is a Schindler; that’s where Woody Guthrie lived, where Anais Nin died, and where Thelma Todd was murdered . . . Despite the fact that one of these staircases starred in an Oscar-winning short film—Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box, from 1932—these civic treasures have been virtually unknown to most of the city’s residents and visitors. Now, Secret Stairs puts these hidden stairways back on the map, while introducing urban hikers to exciting new “trails” all around the city of Los Angeles.

Secret Stairs: East Bay

Author : Charles Fleming
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Release Date : 2011-05-01
ISBN 10 : 9781595808806
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (88 downloads)

Download Secret Stairs: East Bay PDF Format Full Free by Charles Fleming and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and Updated in November 2020! The hills of the East Bay contain one of the finest and densest urban hiking environments in the state of California—more than 400 paved pathways and public staircases lattice up and down the slopes of Berkeley and Oakland alone. Rising high above the city centers, with towering views of the San Francisco Bay, the Bay Bridge, and San Francisco itself, these elegant civic walking trails—many of them shaded in oaks and redwoods, and many unknown even to local residents—present a unique landscape for both the casual walker and dedicated hiker. Charles Fleming, the Southern California author whose bestselling 2010 walking guide Secret Stairs turned the hidden public staircases of Los Angeles into popular hiking trails, now turns his eyes northward. For Secret Stairs: East Bay, Fleming has designed more than 30 individual hiking loops. Linking multiple staircases into one-to two-hour self-guided strolls, these urban treks will delight the tourist, newly arrived Berkeley undergraduate, and veteran Bay Area resident alike. The circular walks, each calibrated by length, difficulty, and duration—and each accompanied by a detailed, easy-to-follow map—are sprinkled with fascinating facts about the historic staircases, the historic homes around them, and the famous Bay Area characters who gave them their names. Walk the walks of Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and John Muir! Climb Berkeley’s massive Fred Herbert and Tamalpais Paths, hike Easter Way, and summit Sunset Trail! Mount Oakland’s Oakmore stairs, then tackle the hills of Upper Rockridge and Crocker Highlands via the public staircases. And do it all within easy walking distance from BART or bus stops, free parking, and excellent Bay Area cafés.

Life below Stairs

Author : Pamela Horn
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2013-04-30
ISBN 10 : 9781445615783
Pages : 282 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (615 downloads)

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Life Below Stairs

Author : Alison Maloney
Publisher : Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-12-24
ISBN 10 : 9781250023124
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (23 downloads)

Download Life Below Stairs PDF Format Full Free by Alison Maloney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPSTAIRS, an Edwardian home would have been a picture of elegance and calm, adorned with social gatherings and extravagantly envisioned dinner parties. DOWNSTAIRS, it was a hive of domestic activity, supported by a body of staff painstakingly devoted to ensuring the smooth running of the household. Brimming with family secrets, society scandal, and of course elaborate parties, dresses, and social customs, the world of an aristocratic Edwardian household as depicted on the hit show Downton Abbey has captivated millions. But what was life really like for the people who kept such a household running: the servants? In Life Below Stairs, international bestselling author Alison Maloney takes readers behind the scenes to reveal a lively and colorful picture of what went on "downstairs," describing servants' daily life in this now-vanished world. Detailing everything from household structure, pay and conditions, special duties, and rules and regulations, to perks, entertainment, and even romance, Maloney examines the drudgery and hardships below stairs, as well as the rewards and pleasures. Thoroughly researched and reliably informed, this charmingly illustrated volume also contains first-hand stories from the staff of the time, making it a must-read for anyone interested in the lifestyle and conduct of a bygone era.

The Old-house Journal

Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015047341782
Pages : 628 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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