House of Stairs
1974
First Published
3.83
Average Rating
169
Number of Pages
One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere, except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls?
Avg Rating
3.83
Number of Ratings
5,284
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
William Sleator
Author · 31 books
William Warner Sleator III was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland on February 13, 1945, and moved to St. Louis, MO when he was three. He graduated from University City High School in 1963, from Harvard in 1967 with BAs in music and English. For more than thirty years, William Sleator thrilled readers with his inventive books. His House of Stairs was named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by the Young Adult Library Services Association. William Sleator died in early August 2011 at his home in Thailand.
