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The novel relates the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in genteel poverty in a decaying English castle during the 1930s. The first person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, an intelligent teenager who tells the story via her personal journal.
Lirmac: The Greengage Summer and I Capture the Castle are both exquisitly-crafted books narrated by girls on the brink of maturity. Both are engaging and timeless, and neither descends into the clichés of the 'coming of age' story.
BookshelfMonstrosity: Although I Capture the Castle is a coming-of-age story, not a mystery, both witty novels are narrated by precocious girls who, left to their own devices by their eccentric families, pursue adventures within the confines of quiet English villages.… (plus d'informations)
This book was such a wonderful, enchanting and unpredictable read that by the end of it I felt like I almost was Cassandra, since her confessions, recordings and thoughts in her journals gave me a thorough insight into her. I also loved how the sections of the book were arranged in differently priced notebooks, which really demonstrated the progression of the story
It feels, reading it now, as if this is the story that every romantic comedy Hollywood has ever made has been trying to tell. And when we come towards the end of the book and a marriage proposal and happily-ever-after storyline seems to be in the offing, I was worried we were going to stray into that territory. But Smith is too good a writer, Cassandra too interesting a person to settle for this.
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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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I know all about the facts of life. And I don't think much of them.
She was so scared, she forgot to be a contralto.
Topaz said she had never been on the streets and rather regretted it, which is the kind of Topazism it requires much affection to tolerate.
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it—or rather, it is like living it.
I am not quite Jane Austen yet and there are limits to what I can stand.
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
This is no moment to be finicky about metaphors.
I certainly didn't think that father would be dead, but I did have a slight fear that we might have unhinged him – the state of his hinges being a bit in doubt even before we started.
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Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
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The novel relates the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in genteel poverty in a decaying English castle during the 1930s. The first person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, an intelligent teenager who tells the story via her personal journal.
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Cassandra ! un prénom romanesque, à l'image du château perdu au fin fond de l'Angleterre on vit la jeune fille et toute sa famille pour le moins excentrique. Un père écrivain qui se refuse à écrire, la merveilleuse Topaz, belle-mère fantasque, Rose, la soeur aînée rêvant au grand amour, sans parler du jeune jardinier qui n'a d'yeux que pour Cassandra. Au fil de ses cahiers, elle relate les événements qui jalonnent leur existence, avec autant de sensibilité que d'ironie. Surgissent deux beaux et riches Américains venus s'installer dans le manoir voisin. La vie au château en sera bouleversée. Le journal, émouvant et drôle, d'une jeune fille pleine d'esprit et de talent. Dès sa parution en 1949, ce récit savoureux a rencontré un immense succès. Il est temps de découvrir en France un grand classique de la littérature anglo-saxonne qui se dévore, à tous les âges, avec délectation. A lire, et relire !