Red House

Author : Sarah Messer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440626472
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red House written by Sarah Messer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America’s fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the house’s original owner, Walter Hatch—which stipulated Red House was to be passed down, "never to be sold or mortgaged from my children and grandchildren forever"—still hung in the living room. In Red House, Messer explores the strange and enriching consequences of growing up with another family’s birthright. Answering the riddle of when shelter becomes first a home and then an identity, Messer has created a classic exploration of heritage, community, and the role architecture plays in our national identity.

Author : Mark Haddon
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385535856
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red House written by Mark Haddon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Against the backdrop of a strange family gathering, Haddon skillfully weaves together the stories of eight very different people forced into close quarters. The Red House is a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly guarded secrets and illicit desires, painting a portrait of contemporary family life that is at once bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.

Author : A. A. Milne
Publisher : Memorable Classics Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red House Mystery written by A. A. Milne and published by Memorable Classics Books. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne - is a whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel (except for Four Days Wonder). Plot introduction: The setting is an English country house, where Mark Ablett has been entertaining a house party consisting of a widow and her marriageable daughter, a retired major, a wilful actress, and Bill Beverley, a young man about town. Mark's long-lost brother Robert, the black sheep of the family, arrives from Australia and shortly thereafter is found dead, shot through the head. Mark Ablett has disappeared, so Tony Gillingham, a stranger who has just arrived to call on his friend Bill, decides to investigate. Gillingham plays Sherlock Holmes to his younger counterpart's Doctor Watson; they progress almost playfully through the novel while the clues mount up and the theories abound. Literary significance and criticism: The Red House Mystery was immediately popular; Alexander Woollcott called it "one of the three best mystery stories of all time", though Raymond Chandler, in his essay The Simple Art of Murder (1944), criticised Woollcott for that claim, referring to him as, "rather a fast man with a superlative". Chandler wrote of Milne's novel, "It is an agreeable book, light, amusing in the Punch style, written with a deceptive smoothness that is not as easy as it looks [...] Yet, however light in texture the story may be, it is offered as a problem of logic and deduction. If it is not that, it is nothing at all. There is nothing else for it to be. If the situation is false, you cannot even accept it as a light novel, for there is no story for the light novel to be about." In his introduction to the 1926 UK edition, A. A. Milne said he had "a passion" for detective stories, having "all sorts of curious preferences" about them: though in real life the best detectives and criminals are professionals, Milne demanded that the detective be an unscientific amateur, accompanied by a likable Watson, rubbing shoulders with an amateur villain against whom dossiers and fingerprints are of no avail.

Author : Andrea Lee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982137800
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Island House written by Andrea Lee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Packet War -- The Children -- Blondes -- Sirens -- Voice -- Noble Rot -- The Rivals -- Guess Who's Coming To Dinner -- Sister Shadow -- Elephants' Graveyard.

Author : George Agnew Chamberlain
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479446017
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red House written by George Agnew Chamberlain and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-02 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifty years fear of the vanishing red house in the Jersey Barrens had warped the lives of Ellen and Pete Yocum. Old Pete swore that the house moved from place to place and that screams heard within it put a hex on anyone who ventured near. Meg Yarrow, raised by the Yocums since childhood, experienced the same terror until Nathan, the new farmhand, arrived. One day they started on a search for the red house in the Oxhead woods, only to encounter violent danger—whether due to natural or supernatural causes, they could not tell. How they found the house and unraveled its eerie secret forms the powerful climax of this outstanding mystery novel.

Author : Jane Godwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922400079
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red House, Blue House, Green House, Tree House! written by Jane Godwin and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a dynamic author-illustrator team comes this fresh, fun and rhythmic exploration of colour.Bold and bright, it's the perfect book for reading aloud and sharing with young children as they learn to identify the colours of their world.

Author : Jane Godwin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525556451
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red House, Tree House, Little Bitty Brown Mouse written by Jane Godwin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bit Each Peach Pear Plum, a bit Go, Dog, Go!, this read-aloud joy is deceptively simple yet packed with delights for the very young--a preschool standout deserving of modern-classic status. A little mouse makes her way around the world, and invites preschoolers along as she sets out: Red house / Blue house / Green house / Tree house! / See the tiny mouse in her little brown house? Seamless, simple, and inspiring, the rhyming story abounds in concepts for the very young, with a particular focus on colors, and a delightful search-and-find element on every spread--the intrepid mouse herself! * "Wonderful...Delightful" --Kirkus (starred review) * "Excellent...Perfectly aimed at the very youngest" --The Horn Book (starred review) "Appealing...Calls for engagement on multiple levels" --PW "Fun...offers multiple opportunities for reader interaction" --SLJ

Author : Tony Abbott
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606105811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red House written by Tony Abbott and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek didn't ask for this. It's bad enough that his brother's body is hosting a dead soul. Then there's that whole business of the evil dead waging war. And don't even get him started on all the weird voices rattling around inside his head. But like

Author : Jan Marsh
Publisher : National Trust Books
ISBN 13 : 9781905400010
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Morris & Red House written by Jan Marsh and published by National Trust Books. This book was released on 2005-11-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red House occupies an extraordinary place in British architectural history. It was the first and only house that William Morris ever built. It was the first independent architectural commission from his friend, Philip Webb. The challenge of furnishing the house inspired Morris to found the design firm of Morris & Co. It had a great influence on the Arts & Crafts Movement. But it is also a house that captured William Morris's heart. He was only twenty-five when, in 1858 he decided to buy the site at Bexleyheath, just outside London, but in a rural Kentish setting. He had recently married Jane Burden, daughter of an Oxford ostler, whose particular beauty became inspiration for so much pre-Raphaelite art. With his young wife and his wealth he planned to produce a vision of earthly paradise at Red House. Rosetti described it as 'more a poem than a house', Morris called it 'our place of art', and when he was obliged to give it up for financial reasons in 1865, he resolved never to return. His biographer recorded that he could 'never set eyes on it again, confessing that the sight of it would be more than he could bear'. Red House was saved from an uncertain future in January 2003 by the National Trust, and has already opened its doors. Visitors will be able to see some of the original furnishings but many are now at Kelmscott Manor, the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, the Victoria & Albert Museum and other locations. This book, however, will provide both the story of Red House and a 'virtual tour' to enable the reader to see how the house looked and functioned when William Morris, his family and friends lived there.

Author : Norma Jean Sawicki
Publisher : Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
ISBN 13 : 9780688078911
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Red House written by Norma Jean Sawicki and published by Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of colorful toy houses, each one containing another slightly smaller, reveals a surprise inside.