I Capture the Castle - by Dodie Smith (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Soon to be a major motion picture released by Samuel Goldwyn films, "I Capture the Castle" tells the story of 17-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Over three turbulent months, she fills three diaries with funny yet poignant entries and manages to find herself hopelessly in love.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>One of the 20th Century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts! </b><br><i><br>I Capture the Castle</i> tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has captured the castle-- and the heart of the reader-- in one of literature's most enchanting entertainments. <p/>"This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met." -- <i>J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain captures the castle in her insightful, witty journal entries." --Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling <p/> "What a lovely book is I Capture the Castle. It's as fresh as if it were written this morning, and as classic as Jane Austen. I'm very happy to have met it." --Donald E. Westlake <p/> "A delicious, compulsively readable novel about young love and its vicissitudes. What fun!" --Erica Jong <p/> "Dreamy and funny . . . an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A+" --Entertainment Weekly <p/> "I Capture the Castle is finally back in print. It should be welcomed with a bouquet of roses and a brass band. Ever since I was handed a tattered copy years ago with the recommendation 'You'll love it, ' it has been one of my favorite novels." --Susan Isaacs <p/> "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." --Los Angeles Times</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Dorothy Gladys Dodie Smith</b> (1895-1990), born in Lancashire, England, was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. She wrote <i>Autumn</i>, <i> Crocus</i>, and <i>Dear Octopus</i>, among other plays. She wrote her first novel, <i>I Capture the Castle</i>, in the 1940s while living in America. An immediate success, it marked her crossover from playwright to novelist. Smith also wrote <i>The Town in Bloom</i>, <i>A Tale of Two Families</i>, and <i>The Girl in the Candle-Lit Bath</i>, but she is best known today as the author of two highly popular stories for young readers: <i>The Hundred and One Dalmatians </i>and <i>The Starlight Barking</i>
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