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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By Shirley Jackson
Series: Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage
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The deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass murderer. Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murderer. Six years ago, everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic - everyone, that is,... Read More
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

"First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1962. Published in a Viking Compass edition 1970. Published in Penguin Books 1976. Previously published with an afterword by Jonathan Lethem in Penguin Books 2006." -- Title page verso.

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The deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass murderer.

Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murderer.

Six years ago, everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic - everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister, Constance. They live in peaceful, ordered isolation, away from prying eyes in the nearby village, until one day, boorish cousin Charles arrives with designs on their father's fortune. Whether by practical or magical means, Merricat will do whatever is necessary to protect their home.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson is a captivating tale of mystery and survival in the face of adversarial forces.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241685044

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 June 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 135g

Pages: 176

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Featured Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction New Release Fiction New Zealand's Best Selling Books Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage Shirley Jackson

About the Author

Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story, 'The Lottery', was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.

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