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Jul 18, 2003 · I Capture the Castle is the kind of novel dreamy adolescents curl up with on rainy Saturdays, imagining themselves as members of a poor but brilliantly eccentric family living in a decrepit English castle. It's that kind of movie, too, about a sublimely impractical family given to sudden dramatic outbursts. It's a romance ever so much more inspiring for teenage girls than the materialist propaganda they get from Hollywood, teaching them to value genius above accessories. And there's a ...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, Apr 1, 2003 - Fiction - 352 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 ...
Synopsis. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her family in a tumbledown castle near the coast in England. Their father, James Mortmain, is a selfish, eccentric novelist. Their stepmother, Topaz, a nudist and artist, Rose, the oldest sister, is very beautiful. Their younger brother is somewhat odd and isolated from people his age.
Dodie Smith. 4.00. 106,061 ratings10,930 reviews. 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 ...
Jul 11, 2003 · A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Based on Dodie Smith's 1948 novel with the same name. Tim Fywell. Director.
Her first novel, I Capture the Castle, was written when she lived in America during the 1940's and marked her crossover debut from playwright to novelist. The novel became an immediate success and was produced as a play in 1954. She has written numerous other novels but is best known today for The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a story for younger ...
May 9, 2003 · Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review joe m I was just reading about "I Capture the Castle" and it brought back to me what a well above average film this is, based on an ...
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