The House Of A Thousand Floors

Author : Jan Weiss
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633860717
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of a Thousand Floors written by Jan Weiss and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of a Thousand Floors is one of the earliest science-fiction novels in European literature, published first in 1929. Besides being a pioneer in its genre, the book is highly regarded for its general merits as psychological literature. The novel tells the story of a dream in fever of a soldier wounded in World War I. He finds himself in the stairway of a gigantic (and kafkaesque) tower-like building, which is a metaphor for modern society. He learns that his task is to rescue Princess Tamara from Muller, the lord of the edifice. After a number of surrealistic encounters in the building, during which he is hailed as a liberator by many and is hunted by the cruel security guards, the main character finds Tamara and faces the cruel lord of Mullerdom. The novel makes fine use of a range of experimental styles and techniques. At times, linear storytelling gives way to a collage of incongruous elements: excerpts from fictitious books, encyclopedia articles, radio broadcast transcripts are used as a shortcut to describe places or events; other narrative ingredients include fanciful advertisements, ludicrous administrative documents or political slogans which highlight the idiosyncrasies of this decadent world.

Author : Katharine McGee
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062418610
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thousandth Floor written by Katharine McGee and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller New York City as you’ve never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible—if you want it enough. Welcome to Manhattan, 2118. A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here wants something…and everyone has something to lose. Leda Cole’s flawless exterior belies a secret addiction—to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched. Eris Dodd-Radson’s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart. Rylin Myers’s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world—and a romance—she never imagined…but will her new life cost Rylin her old one? Watt Bakradi is a tech genius with a secret: he knows everything about everyone. But when he’s hired to spy by an upper-floor girl, he finds himself caught up in a complicated web of lies. And living above everyone else on the thousandth floor is Avery Fuller, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all—yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have. Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Big Little Lies, debut author Katharine McGee has created a breathtakingly original series filled with high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, where the impossible feels just within reach. But in this world, the higher you go, the farther there is to fall….

Author : Kathleen Stoehr
Publisher : Charles Randall International
ISBN 13 : 1890379166
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Home Decorating Idea Book written by Kathleen Stoehr and published by Charles Randall International. This book was released on 2007 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Home Decorating Idea Book focuses on vertical and horizontal surfaces by examining not only windows, walls and floors but also celebrates the fifth wall ceilings! Readers will discover the clever possibilities for treating surfaces of all kinds with paint, wallpaper, tile, stone, fabric and more. Beginning with a chapter on a personal favorite, window treatments, Stoehr covers all types of hard and soft window products, as well as how to approach the decoration of a large window wall. A chapter on wall coverings follows, including paint, paper, tile, stone, fabric and wood. In section three, the decorated ceiling pulls our eyes upward from the horizontal sweep we normally experience in a room, creating a sense of satisfied completion to any interior. Decorated ceilings, our interior sky is attention to detail at its best, creating drama in the dining room or a calm, restful environment in the bedroom. Finally, we look to the floor, an area frequently overlooked but is the ultimate component for finishing any room with style. All this and more, including thousands of today's top interior photographs, will be found in The Complete Home Decorating Idea Book.

Author : Michelle Barker
Publisher : Annick Press
ISBN 13 : 1773210734
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of One Thousand Eyes written by Michelle Barker and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who can Lena trust to help her find out the truth? Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it’s particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent to live with her stern aunt, a devoted member of the ruling Communist Party. Visits with her beloved Uncle Erich, a best-selling author, are her only respite. But one night, her uncle disappears without a trace. Gone also are all his belongings, his books, and even his birth records. Lena is desperate to know what happened to him, but it’s as if he never existed. The worst thing, however, is that she cannot discuss her uncle or her attempts to find him with anyone, not even her best friends. There are government spies everywhere. But Lena is unafraid and refuses to give up her search, regardless of the consequences. This searing novel about defiance, courage, and determination takes readers into the chilling world of a society ruled by autocratic despots, where nothing is what it seems.

Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0375420525
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of Leaves written by Mark Z. Danielewski and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2000-03-07 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings Before the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1909 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucian Poll
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781490393018
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Floors written by Lucian Poll and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOW WOULD YOU ESCAPE A MAZE OF THIRTEENTH FLOORS? You work in a skyscraper. You live in an apartment block. You stop over at a hotel. You find a button missing from the elevator's control panel. Thirteen. Over the years superstition has robbed floors from thousands of buildings across the world and continues to do so. Dawn McKenzie and Joe Bradley are about to discover where these floors really lie. Chased into an impossible maze split across time and space, their chances of survival narrow by the second. And in a maze with precious little food, they are not the only ones trying to survive...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Years of Brewing written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 894 pages
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Download or read book Poultry Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1252 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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