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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.
ASIN : 0143039970
Publisher : Penguin Classics; Deluxe edition (October 31, 2006)
Language : English
Paperback : 146 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780143039976
ISBN-13 : 978-0143039976
Lexile measure : 920L
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 5.64 x 0.5 x 8.37 inches
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Customers find the book intriguing, charming, and well-written. They describe the story as suspenseful, haunting, and poignant. Readers praise the writing style as clever, poetic, and deceptively simple. They also find the characters fascinating, sharply delineated, and remarkable. They mention the tone is dark. Opinions are mixed on the pacing, with some finding it captivated the entire time while others say it reads slow.
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