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Now a major motion picture from the Academy Award-winning producer of Shakespeare in Love I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent... read more

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Cast of Characters/Important People

  • Cassandra Mortmain: Protagonist, the younger daughter and the story's narrator, has literary ambitions and spends a lot of time developing her writing talent by "capturing" everything around her in her journal.
  • Rose Mortmain: Older sister. Quite the classic English beauty.
  • Mr. Mortmain: Reclusive author.
  • Topaz: Mr. Mortmain's second wife. Former model. Fan of eccentric dress.
  • Simon Cotton: American.
  • Neil Cotton: American.

First Sentence

I WRITE THIS sitting in the kitchen sink.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Dodie Smith (Author)
 

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