House of Stairs
| Title | House of Stairs |
| Year for Search | 1974 |
| Authors | Sleator, William [Warner] [III](1945-2011) |
| Date Published | 1974 |
| Publisher | E. P. Dutton |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The U.S. author (1945-2011) lived in Thailand and the U.S. |
| Full Text | 1974 Sleator, William [Warner, III] (1945-2011). House of Stairs. New York: E. P. Dutton. PSt 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. The U.S. author lived in Thailand and the U.S. |
