House of Gold

Author: Natasha Solomons
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 073521297X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
Vienna, 1911. Greta Goldbaum has always hungered after what's forbidden: secret university lectures, unseemly trumpet lessons, and most of all, the freedom to choose her life's path. United across Europe by unsurpassed wealth and power, Goldbaum men are bankers, while Goldbaum women marry Goldbaum men to produce Goldbaum children. Greta moves to England to wed Albert, a distant cousin. The marriage is not a success, but when Albert's mother gives Greta a garden, she falls in love with her garden, then with England, and finally with her husband. But when World War I begins, her family is splintered: Albert is at the front lines for the Allies; Greta's brother Otto is fighting for the Central Powers. -- adapted from publisher info.

House of Gold & Bones

Author: Corey Taylor
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1621158543
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
In a nightmarish world, the Human finds himself at a crossroads as wild adventure ensues and he's thrust into a morphing landscape of rolling hills, dense forest, and an ominous Crimson City. Chased by a crazed mob and mysterious characters neither friend nor foe, the Human takes an unexpected journey that will lead to his salvation… or damnation. Collects the four-issue miniseries. * Inspired by the Stone Sour album House of Gold & Bones Parts 1 and 2. * Includes variant covers by Frank Quitely, Kylz Hotz, Steve Morris, and Richard Clark. " House of Gold and Bones #1 explores the fear of the unknown in interesting ways. Though the issue leaves a lot of unanswered questions, I look forward to reading how Taylor will develop the mystery." - Bloody Disgusting

House of Gold

Author: Elizabeth Cullivan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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House of Gold

Author: Bud Macfarlane
Publisher: Saint Jude Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description
With House of Gold, America's favorite Catholic novelist returns to the riveting, apocalyptic storytelling which captured the hearts of countless readers in his explosive classic, Pierced by a Sword, while retaining the intimate, realistic characters who charmed, surprised, and ultimately swept readers away in his second novel, Conceived Without Sin. Join Bud Macfarlane as he takes you on a gripping spiritual odyssey that will reverberate through your soul long after you turn the final page.

The House of Gold

Author: Liam O'Flaherty
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781484097496
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The first novel to be banned in Ireland, The House of Gold is a rare perspective on the Irish at a major turning point in their history. The House of Gold in a turbulent post-Civil War town in the West of Ireland where the old ascendancy has been replaced by a corrupt native elite headed by the avaricious Ramon Mor Costello and his clerical accomplices. His exotically beautiful wife is the catalyst for a series of violent events that lead to an unexpected climax. Greed, priestly lusts, sexual frustration, alcoholism, and murder are themes woven together in this compelling tale by Liam O'Flaherty, one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers.

House of Gold

Author: J. Rouw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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The House of Gold

Author: Richard J. Goy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521405133
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
In 1406 a young Venetian nobleman, Marin Contarini, married into another ancient patrician clan. His wife's family owned an old palace on the Grand Canal. Contarini demolished the old palace and, in 1421, he began to build the C... d'Oro, his 'House of Gold'. This 1993 book tells the history of the building of the palace over a period of nearly twenty years. After a general introduction to the city of Venice at the beginning of the quattrocento, Dr Goy discusses the background to the building of the palace. There follows a discussion of the building industry in Venice in this flourishing period, and of the functions of the three chief building crafts. In the latter half of the study, the whole building process is recreated in detail; the relationships between Contarini and his craftsmen are analysed, as is the pivotal role of Contarini himself, the architect manqué whose monument this was to become.

The Book of Gold

Author: Bob Staake
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0553510770
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
"Isaac isn't interested in much, but when a mysterious shopkeeper tells him about a legendary book that holds the answers to every question ever asked, he embarks on a lifelong search for the Book of Gold"--

Three Plays

Author: Gregory S Moss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781716234392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Three dark comedies by award-winning playwright Gregory S Moss. sixsixsix is a "wickedly cunning take on Faust" (Flavorpill), a metaphysical revenge tragedy about the daughter of a renowned scientist seeking to punish her famous father for her mother's death. House of Gold is a surreal investigation of the notorious murder of an American beauty queen. "Over the top and yet heartbreakingly real... a creepy and surprisingly profound play" (L.A. Times). Billy Witch is a dark comedy about growing up, summer camp, haunted cabins and animal instincts. "Half Wet Hot American Summer and half Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (Wilmington Star), Billy Witch "takes the familiar ingredients of high school horror - summer camp, a lake, ghost stories - and hurls them into a whirlwind of comic sexual awakening" (The New York Times). This edition includes original papercut illustrations by Dylan Metrano. A Burst & Bloom book.

House of Gold

Author: Natasha Solomons
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735212996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I. The start of a marriage. The end of a dynasty. It's 1911 and Greta Goldbaum is forced to move from glittering Vienna to damp England to wed Albert, a distant cousin. The Goldbaum family are one of the wealthiest in the world, with palaces across Europe, but as Jews and perpetual outsiders they know that strength lies in family. At first defiant and lonely, slowly Greta softens toward Albert, and as the wild paths and untamed beauty of Greta's new English garden begin to take shape, so too does their love begin to blossom. But World War I looms and even the influential Goldbaums cannot alter its course. For the first time in two hundred years, the family will find itself on opposing sides, and Greta will have to choose: the family she's created, or the one she left behind.