Book description
To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read
This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage
Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundles', to
tempt readers to discover and rediscover great books.
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
'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...
THE SECRET GARDEN
Mary Lennox is an orphan who is sent to live with her uncle at
gloomy Misselthwaite Manor. Neglected and lonely, she begins to
explore her new home and learns of a secret garden that her uncle has
forbidden anyone to enter. A friendly robin shows Mary the key to the
garden and she discovers a world she could never have imagined...
The Secret Garden has enchanted generations of children and
adults alike.
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.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester in 1849. After
living in poverty, she emigrated to the US in 1865. She wrote over
forty books; the best-known today are The Secret Garden, A Little
Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy. She died in 1924.
