I CAPTURE THE CASTLE

Book ID/图书代码： 08B21586

English Summary/英文概要： ’I write this sitting in the kitchen sink’ is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fadingly glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer’s block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time...

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本書描述17歲Cassandra及其古怪家庭在廢棄英國古堡生活的故事。

曾為暢銷作家James Mortmain帶著他的妻子和兩個小女兒懷著無限的希望住進這荒廢的古堡裡，但她們一家在當地被看作怪人，住在一座破舊的城堡內，過著賣傢俱買食物的窮困日子…差不多可以說是與世隔絕的生活。父親曾成功地完成自己的小說處女作，但那之後12年卻再也沒有寫過任何文一個字。而年輕的繼母是個信仰真善美的藝術家，除了煮飯掃地和創作外，最大的消遣便是在鄉間田野裸奔。長女Rose是個困在古堡中的美麗女孩，她希望自己的生命能夠發生些什麼卻老是怨天尤人，希望遇到有錢的好男人，希望自己是住在珍奧斯丁的小說中，而非在這樣荒廢城堡裡。次女Cassandra是個熱愛鄉間生活的女孩，她拿著筆和紙本紀錄著她所看到感覺到的一切，一直堅持寫作，夢想著有一天能成為作家。Cassandra的日記坦率地記錄了城堡城內的生活，包含她自己第一次如何墜入愛河，她帶著的少女憂愁用文字向讀者傳達「用輕鬆的態度生活下去」。"I love, I have love, I will love."，你將感覺的是到一種若有所失卻舒服坦然的遺憾。(VL)

Awards/获奖情况：A classic tale of the triumph of youthful naivety over middle-aged cynicism, this book has been inspiration to a host of writers, from Armistead Maupin to Joanna Trollope, ever since it was first published in 1949. How can you resist a novel which begins ’I write this sitting in the kitchen sink’ (and then goes on to tell a tale of love, sibling rivalry and bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere)? Pure joy. (Kirkus UK)
The author of popular theatrical hits, Autumn Crocus, etc., has produced a first novel, a gentle, genteel story of English eccentrics, kindly Americans, and an artless, unworldly background that has no current feel. The story is told in diary form by Cassandra, middle child of novelist Mortmain. At the moment, the family is stale-mated,- the father refusing to write, the stepmother able to pose only once in a while, Rose, beautiful and despairing of meeting anyone eligible to marry, even their friend, the librarian, can offer no solution. Rose wishes on a dewll - and two Americans, Simon and Neil, appear, lost en route to the property Simon has inherited. They are fascinated by the whole unlikely thing,- the old castle, the girls, the identity of Mortmain, whose one great novel Simon knew. Both girls determine that Simon shall be Rose’s - and almost too late, with Rose in London shopping for her wedding, Cassandra realizes that it is Simon she loves, while Rose loves Neil. There’s charm here - there’s a gay, English spotting of humor that makes the romance and the slight story almost a natural for the Thirkell followers - for enthusiasts of the Jane Austen tradition. Literary Guild selection for November will give it the necessary impetus. And the crying need for clean and pleasant romance will find a measure of answer here. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author/作者介绍： 多迪•史密斯（Dodie Smith，1896—1990），英國家喻戶曉的女作家、好萊塢編劇，她創作過《秋天》Autumn、《番紅花》Crocus和《親愛的章魚》Dear Octopus等劇本。《我的秘密城堡》I Capture the Castle是她的第一部小說，於美國1940年代完成。她成功地跨界在劇作家到小說家之間，並於 1954年開始製作戲劇。另外她也寫兩本深受兒童喜愛的作品《101只斑點狗》(The Hundred and One Dalmatians)和《星光咆哮》(The Starlight Barking)等，兩本書後來由迪士尼動畫公司改編成動畫電影。

Dorothy Gladys ’Dodie’ Smith was born in 1896 in Lancashire and she was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. Her first novel, I Capture the Castle, was written when she lived in America during the 1940’s and 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. The Hundred and One Dalmatians became the basis of two Disney films.

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