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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100143039970
ISBN-139780143039976
eBay Product ID (ePID)53556330
Product Key Features
Book TitleWe Have Always Lived in the Castle : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Horror, Literary, Gothic
Publication Year2006
IllustratorYes, Ott, Thomas
GenreFiction
AuthorShirley Jackson
Book SeriesPenguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight7 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-049342
Dewey Edition19
Reviews"A marvelous elucidation of life...a story full of craft and full of mystery" -- The New York Times Book Review "A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty" -- The New York Times, "A marvelous elucidation of life...a story full of craft and full of mystery" -- The New York Times Book Review "A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty" -- The New York Times "I was thrilled by the genuine but meaningful strangeness of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle ." -- George Saunders "Jackson's novel is so wonderfully creepy that students usually feel subversive just for reading it. Add to that one of the most brilliantly realized unreliable narrators in fiction and the book becomes irresistible." -- Marlon James, "A marvelous elucidation of life...a story full of craft and full of mystery" -- The New York Times Book Review "A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty" -- The New York Times "I was thrilled by the genuine but meaningful strangeness of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle ." --George Saunders "Jackson's novel is so wonderfully creepy that students usually feel subversive just for reading it. Add to that one of the most brilliantly realized unreliable narrators in fiction and the book becomes irresistible." --Marlon James, "A marvelous elucidation of life...a story full of craft and full of mystery" -- The New York Times Book Review "A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty" -- The New York Times "I was thrilled by the genuine but meaningful strangeness of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle ." -- George Saunders
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Afterword byLethem, Jonathan
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionDeluxe
SynopsisTaking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate., Alone since four members of the family died of arsenic poisoning, Merricat, Constance and Julian Blackwood spend their days in happy isolation until cousin Charles appears., Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
LC Classification NumberPS3519.A392W4 2006
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- 02. Jul. 2018
Gross/hairy smudge on inside cover.
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- 23. Feb. 2016
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Castle
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