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I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith | Read by Emilia Fox
4 cassettes | Abridged
Item #M41224u | ISBN: 1-57270-224-9 | $24.95
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Seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family live in not-so-genteel
poverty in the crumbling ruin of an old English castle. She is the plucky
second daughter of a writer father who has suffered in recent years
from writer's block but who tries nonetheless to support his family
on the meager royalties from his past work. Life becomes much more complicated
during the six month period covered by the novel, when the estate's
new, young, handsome, American landlords - two young men named Simon
and Neil - enter the picture and take an interest in Cassandra and her
beautiful older sister.
This is that rare gem of a novel that effectively blends humor, adventure,
romance, candid introspection, poignancy, intelligence, and all the
complicated ups and downs of eccentric family relationships.
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (1896-1990) was one of
the most successful female dramatists of her generation. Her first novel,
I Capture the Castle (Little Brown, 1948) was written when she lived
in America during the '40s and marked her crossover debut from playwright
to novelist. The novel became an immediate success and was produced
as a play in 1954. She wrote a total of six novels for adults, three
for children, and 11 plays. She is best known for her stories for young
readers, The Hundred and One Dalmations.
Emilia Fox is a British actress with numerous film, stage, and
British TV and radio broadcasting credits. She will appear in Roman
Polanski's upcoming film, The Pianist.
"This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever
met... Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortman captures the castle in her
insightful, witty journal entries."-J.K. Rowling, author of the
Harry Potter series
"You are in for a treat!" -novelist Susan Isaacs
"Dreamy and funny? an odd, shimmering timelessness clings
to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A+." -Entertainment
Weekly
"It is an occasion worth celebrating when a sparkling novel, a
work of wit, irony and feeling is brought back into print after an absence
of many years. So uncork the champagne for I Capture the Castle."
-The Los Angeles Times
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