I CAPTURE THE CASTLE.
by SMITH, Dodie (Dorothy Gladys), 1896-1990 :
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About This Item
London : William Heinemann, (1949). First British edition. "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board" - the travails of Cassandra Mortmain. Her first novel - an eccentric classic brought to an even wider audience by the 2003 film with Bill Nighy, Romola Garai, Rose Byrne, etc. Crown 8vo (185 x 122mm). [iv],338pp. Illustrations by Ruth Steed (from sketches by the author). Bound in a smart recent half blue morocco, banded and gilt; red label; marbled sides; top edge red; some spotting to edges, but otherwise a very good copy in an elegant binding.
Synopsis
I Capture the Castle is Dodie Smith's first novel, and was published in 1948. Smith, who wrote the novel during a sojourn in America, was already an established playwright and later became famous for authoring the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians. I Capture the Castle relates the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in a decaying English castle in the 1930s. The story is told by Cassandra Mortmain, a bright teenager, through her personal journal.
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- Title
- I CAPTURE THE CASTLE.
- Author
- SMITH, Dodie (Dorothy Gladys), 1896-1990 :
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- Used
- Publisher
- London : William Heinemann, (1949).
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