I Capture the Castle
by Smith, Dodie
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good -/Good -
- Seller
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Port Robinson, Ontario, Canada
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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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- Seller
- 3rsusedbooks (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 015789
- Title
- I Capture the Castle
- Author
- Smith, Dodie
- Illustrator
- Ruth Steed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Good -
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
- Publisher
- Little, brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- NO-ISBN, PRE-ISBN, COLLECTIBLES NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Romance;
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