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A staircase or stairway is one or more flights of stairs leading from one floor to another, and includes landings, newel posts, handrails, balustrades, and additional parts. [4] In buildings, stairs is a term applied to a complete flight of steps between two floors. A stair flight is a run of stairs or steps
The next two, The Secret Staircase and The High Hills, were published as full-sized books (24×19.5 cm / 7.6×9.5 in). The last two books, Sea Story and Poppy's Babies, were released in the miniature format (17.6×14.6 cm / 5.7×6.9 in). Many later collections have all books in a larger format.
The story of Bartlebooth is the principal thread, but it interlinks with many others. Another key thread is the painter Serge Valène's final project. Bartlebooth hires him as a tutor before embarking on his tour of the world, and buys himself a flat in the same block where Valène lives.
Simon & Schuster published this first English edition in 1928, with illustrations by Kurt Wiese, under the title Bambi: A Life in the Woods. [7] [11] The New York Times Book Review praised the prose as "admirably translated" that made the book "literature of a high order." [12] [9] The translation immediately became "a Book-of-the-Month Club hit."
In the Woods is a 2007 mystery novel by Tana French about a pair of Irish detectives and their investigation of the murder of a twelve-year-old girl. It is the first book in French's Dublin Murder Squad series. [ 1 ]
The Secrets of Droon is a fantasy book series by Tony Abbott aimed at elementary school-age children. The first book, The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet, was published on June 1, 1999. [1] On October 1, 2010, the final book of the series, The Final Quest, was released, concluding its eleven-year run. [2]
The Trees, the first novel of Conrad Richter's trilogy The Awakening Land, is set in the wilderness of central Ohio (c. 1795).The simple plot — composed of what are essentially episodes in the life of a pioneer family before the virgin hardwood forest was cut down — is told in a third-person narration rich with folklore and suggestive of early backwoods speech.
It was published first in 1898 as an edition in one volume of The Hollow Tree and In the Deep Woods with several new stories and pictures added. The book has 28 animal stories, notably tales of the 'Coon, the 'Possum, and the Old Black Crow, which live in the Hollow Tree in the Deep Woods. These books contain pen-and-ink illustrations by J. M ...