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| Original Title: | I Capture the Castle |
| ISBN: | 0312181108 (ISBN13: 9780312181109) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Cassandra Mortmain, Rose Mortmain, James Mortmain, Topaz Mortmain, Thomas Mortmain, Stephen Colly, Simon Cotton, Neil Cotton, Miss Marcy, Audrey Fox-Cotton, Leda Fox-Cotton |
| Setting: | Suffolk, England,1934(United Kingdom) Godsend Castle, Suffolk, England,1934(United Kingdom) |
Dodie Smith
Hardcover | Pages: 343 pages Rating: 4 | 79625 Users | 7972 Reviews
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| Title | : | I Capture the Castle |
| Author | : | Dodie Smith |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 343 pages |
| Published | : | March 31st 1998 by Wyatt Book (first published 1948) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Psychology. Young Adult. Health. Mental Health. Mental Illness. Classics. Contemporary |
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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 household, not the least of which is that Cassandra is deeply, hopelessly, in love.Rating Appertaining To Books I Capture the Castle
Ratings: 4 From 79625 Users | 7972 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books I Capture the Castle
Dear I Capture the Castle,What to say, what to say? Hard to put down all the feelings. To put it simply: you did everything right. The characterization like flowers slowly blooming. The story like seasons changing, invisibly but inevitably. The romance made both heartfelt and utterly, often infuriatingly real. The details, oh the details! I was put right into this world and right into Cassandra's head. And the charm! You are such a charming book - so amusing and so sweet-tempered yet with atoo much lovey-dovey stuff, not enough practical instruction on the day-to-day of castle acquisition.review to come / 3ish stars
i found this book to alternate between delightful and infuriating.here is the delightful: -images of the english countryside and the crumbling, fantastic castle-cassandra's optimism and intelligence (pre-simon)-perfect descriptions of peaceful, contemplative momentsand here is the infuriating:-cassandra's father. a supposed genius but in reality a sexist, abusive, loathsome, distant fellow. he appears sporadically to ignore his children, leave his wife lonely, make everyone question his sanity
Read as part of The Infinite Variety Reading Challenge, based on the BBC's Big Read Poll of 2003. Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? I had high hopes for I Capture the Castle. Not being a Modern Classics person but loving Cold Comfort Farm I had the view that it would be fairly similar. It was fairly similar, but nowhere near as good: in fact, I'd say it was the same thing but written by a three-year-old like some kind of early Public School attempt at a pastiche.The story in
This is what a Young Adult novel should read like.
Was it a bit "consciously" naive? Perhaps. Did I care? No, I did not. Even the character who spoke those words soon preferred to take them back in favor of the fascinated love he felt towards the beauty of the Mortmains of Godsend Castle. I smiled upon my first acquaintaince with Miss Cassandra Mortmain, laughed upon further conversation, and felt as if I were there clasping hands with her in the shadows of her crumbling castle near all the way through. The book is an invocation of Gothic
One of my all time favourites. You can watch my full recommendation here - http://youtu.be/tFPZ4LoaGq8
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