![]() “Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.” I will fill it with words of only one syllable. “The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently …There is only one page left to write on. ![]() “But some characters in books are really real - Jane Austen’s are and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.” “How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!” “I wonder if there isn’t a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?” “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.” ![]() This is a captivating - an enchanting story, bit it is also shrewd commentary on life and art and the complexity of the human heart.” “Finding out what happens makes rewarding reading. Critics were kind as well, as in the words of this original 1948 review: This coming-of-age story has been beloved by readers of all ages ever since it was published in 1948. ![]() I Capture the Castle features sisters Rose and Cassandra Mortmain, members of an eccentric family living in genteel poverty in a crumbling castle in the 1930s. Following is a selection of colorful quotes from I Capture the Castle (1948). Dodie Smith (1896 – 1990), the British novelist playwright, was best known for The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956) and her young adult novel I Capture the Castle. ![]()
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