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  • Vanderbilt, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, 1873-1958.
     
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  • Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914.
     
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  • Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.) -- History.
     
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    The last castle [large type] : the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home / Denise Kiernan.
    by Kiernan, Denise, author.
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    Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.
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  • Vanderbilt, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, 1873-1958.
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  • Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914.
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  • Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.) -- History.
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    9781432848231 (large print : hardback)
    1432848232 (large print : hardback)
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    Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
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    665 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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    Large print edition.
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    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.
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    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.
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