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I Capture the Castle was Dodie Smith's first novel, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley, a conscientious objector, moved from their native England to California. Smith was already an established playwright and later became famous for writing the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians .
3.99. 107,949ratings11,150reviews. Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family. By the time the last diary shuts, there have been great changes in the Mortmain ...
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Overview. I Capture the Castle is a young adult novel published in 1948 by Dodie Smith. It follows the fictional journal of aspiring author Cassandra Mortmain as she writes about her family’s rise from poverty to wealth through their association with the Cotton brothers. The novel discusses themes of authorship, history, and the multiplicity ...
Oct 20, 2017 · I Capture the Castle looks at what happens when a marriage plot meets a modernist sensibility. Cassandra and Rose think of themselves as two sisters from a 19th-century marriage plot book, “two ...
Mar 15, 1999 · I Capture the Castle. Paperback – Illustrated, March 15 1999. by Dodie Smith (Author) 4.3 5,729 ratings. See all formats and editions. One of the 20th century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle! “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.”.
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Mar 15, 1999 · One of the 20th century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle! “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.” -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series Adapted to a feature film in 2003, I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ...
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Macmillan, 1948 - Fiction - 343 pages. One of the 20th century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle! “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.”. -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series. Adapted to a feature film in 2003, I Capture the Castle tells the story of ...
