I Capture the Castle Hardcover - 2013

Name: I Capture The Castle
Price: 15.20 GBP
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Author: Smith, Dodie
ISBN: 9781782300229

by Dodie Smith

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From the publisher

Dorothy Gladys 'DODIE' SMITH was born in 1986 in Lancashire and was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. Her first novel, I Capture the Castle, written when she lived in America during the 1940's, marked her crossover debut from playwright to novelist. The novel became an immediate success and was produced as a play in 1954. She has written numerous other novels but is best known today for The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a story for younger readers grown out of her life-long love of the spotty dog and inspired by her own experiences. The Hundred and One Dalmatians became the basis of two Disney Films. She lived in a cottage with her husband and many pets, in the Essex countryside that she loved, until her death in 1990, aged 94.

Details

Title I Capture the Castle
Author Dodie Smith
Binding Hardcover
Pages 570
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Bodley Head
Date 2013-12-24
ISBN 9781782300229 / 1782300228
Ages 12 to UP years
Grade levels 7 - UP
Reading level 920
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

• "The appeal of the book is that of a time of innocence... When a girl of 17 could still be all but untouched by sexuality. At the same time it captures the pangs of growing up and unrequited first love." --Observer

• "When I read I Capture the Castle it immediately became one of my favourite novels of all time, and I was very annoyed that nobody had told me about it before." --J.K Rowling

About the author

Dorothy Gladys 'DODIE' SMITH was born in 1986 in Lancashire and was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. Her first novel, "I Capture the Castle," written when she lived in America during the 1940's, marked her crossover debut from playwright to novelist. The novel became an immediate success and was produced as a play in 1954. She has written numerous other novels but is best known today for "The Hundred and One Dalmatians," a story for younger readers grown out of her life-long love of the spotty dog and inspired by her own experiences. "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" became the basis of two Disney Films. She lived in a cottage with her husband and many pets, in the Essex countryside that she loved, until her death in 1990, aged 94.