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Copyright © 2017 by Denise Kiernan
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First Touchstone hardcover edition September 2017
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Interior design by Erich Hobbing
Jacket design by Cherlynne Li
Jacket photograph © Frank Ellison/Dreamstime.com
The cover image is used with permission of The Biltmore Company, Asheville, N.C.
Architectural drawings of Richard Morris Hunt, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kiernan, Denise. author.
Title: The last castle : the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty
in the nation’s largest home / Denise Kiernan.
Description: First Touchstone hardcover edition. | New York : Touchstone,
2017. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017015229 (print) | LCCN 2017017046 (ebook) | ISBN
9781476794068 (eBook) | ISBN 9781476794044 (hardcover) | ISBN
9781476794051 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.)—History. | Vanderbilt,
Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, 1873–1958. | Vanderbilt, George Washington,
1862–1914.
Classification: LCC F264.A8 (ebook) | LCC F264.A8 K54 2017 (print) | DDC
975.6/88—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017015229
ISBN 978-1-4767-9404-4
ISBN 978-1-4767-9406-8 (ebook)