I Capture the Castle
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are...
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Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when American heirs to castle arrive.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099460879 (0099460874)
Publish date: February 5th 2004
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 408
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Coming Of Age
J'ai remarqué que lorsqu'on imagine des choses, elles ne se produisent jamais dans la vraie vie, donc je me retiens.
Read about a third of it. Super meh.
I really, really like Dodie Smith's writing style. This isn't a book with a lot of action and adventure, but the narrative was great and it kept me interested. I thought the book could have been formatted better, though, to remind readers that it's a journal. All of the characters were well-written,...
I've promised myself that during the coming year, I will be more careful and avoid reading crap. There were points in the past few months where I became so bogged down in terrible writing that I was stymied, unable to go forward or backward. Thankfully, with I Capture the Castle, I've found the perf...
A book you appreciate at so many different levels depending on what age you are. I love Cassandra.
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