I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smithliterary work· published 1948
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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. It is a coming-of-age story in which Cassandra becomes a young woman and experiences her first love. In 2003 the novel was listed at number 82 in the BBC's survey The Big Read.
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I Capture the Castle was adapted into a 2003 film.
I Capture the Castle2003 · film · 113 min · dir. Tim Fywell · IMDb ↗In 1930s England, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her eccentric family struggle to survive in a decaying English castle.
