Manor Houses of England
Title | Manor Houses of England PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd |
Publisher | Vendome Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002-12-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780865651562 |
Most still privately owned, these manor houses are scattered all over England, & range from simple Norman halls to picturesque Tudor homes, many dating from the reign of the Stuarts.
The Old Manor House
Title | The Old Manor House PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1822 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Manor House
Title | Manor House PDF eBook |
Author | Paige Rense |
Publisher | Doubleday Books |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Pierpont Tree III of Los Angeles, private eye to the very rich, is hired to investigate the murder of an editor of a posh magazine. The probe takes him and his companion, retired actress China Carlyle, on a tour of low and high society, the latter including a sultan's party.
The Ghosts at Manor House
Title | The Ghosts at Manor House PDF eBook |
Author | G. C. Skipper |
Publisher | Children's Press(CT) |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780516034720 |
While doing research for their term paper, two youngsters find it difficult to ignore rumors about the ghosts haunting the site of a colonial ironworks.
The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Title | The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island PDF eBook |
Author | Mac Griswold |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2013-07-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1466837012 |
Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large—twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide—had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, New York, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, The Manor is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering. It is a monumental achievement.
The Mouse in the Manor House (and Other Poems)
Title | The Mouse in the Manor House (and Other Poems) PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Garland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2015-06-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781512307481 |
"The Mouse in the Manor House (and other poems)" is a 34-page book featuring the illustrated story (written in rhyme) of Jenny Mouse on Christmas Eve, as she searches for her husband, Peter Mouse, who has been missing in Manor House for a day. When she discovers the misfortune that has befallen him, she must devise a plan to save the day...The story is followed by several illustrated poems fit for children and adults alike.Written by Reddit's "/u/Poem_For_Your_Sprog"
Grace Under Pressure
Title | Grace Under Pressure PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Hyzy |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2010-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101187891 |
From the author of the successful White House Chef mysteries. Everyone wants a piece of millionaire Bennett Marshfield, owner of Marshfield Manor, but now it's up to a new curator Grace Wheaton and handsome groundskeeper Jack Embers to protect dear old Marshfield. But to do this, they'll have to investigate a botched Ponzi scheme, some torrid Wheaton family secrets-and sour grapes out for revenge.