We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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.

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.

Report

Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go. Donna Tartt

Product details

• Authors: Shirley Jackson
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.06.2024
• EAN: 9780241685044
• ISBN: 978-0-241-68504-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage; Penguin Modern Classics - Crime & Espionage
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Crime, Vermont, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Thrillers / Domestic, FICTION / Gothic, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, c 1960 to c 1969, Classic horror and ghost stories