I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith · first published 1948

I Capture the Castle is 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. 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.

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Genre:

Romantic fiction, Humorous fiction, Bildungsroman

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 4.6 / 5 (9 on Open Library)

Year page:

1948