@booklet {2735, title = {House of Stairs}, year = {1974}, month = {1974}, publisher = {E. P. Dutton}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Young adult dystopia in which a doctor tries to condition five orphans to become perfect tools of the state. He succeeds with three of them. A group of talented children are run through a maze (\"This book is dedicated to all the rats and pigeons who have already been here.\") in an attempt to create an elite. Authoritarian dystopia in the background.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011)} }