I Capture the Castle
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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.
Author | Dodie Smith |
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Illustrator | Ruth Steed, from sketches by the author |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Set in | Suffolk and London, 1930s |
Publisher | William Heinemann (UK); McClelland and Stewart (CA); Little, Brown (US) |
Publication date | 1948 |
Publication place | United Kingdom, United States, Canada |
Media type | Print: hardback |
OCLC | 24724940 |
823.914 |
The novel concerns an eccentric family struggling to live in genteel poverty in a decaying castle during the 1930s. The first-person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, who tells the story through her journal. It is a coming-of-age story in which Cassandra becomes a young woman and experiences her first love.
In 2003 the novel was listed at number 82 in the BBC's survey The Big Read.[1]