My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson and Bernadette Dunne
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Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods—until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat protects her from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers. Their days pass in happy isolation until cousin Charles appears. Only Merricat can see the danger, and she must act swiftly to keep Constance from his grasp.
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mystery, first-person narrative, Fiction, Literature, Gothic fiction, psychological fiction, Sisters, Murder, Investigation, Social isolation, Gothic novels, Fiction, psychological, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American literature, Fiction, horror, Fiction, gothic, Horror tales, Teenagers, CastlesShowing 4 featured editions. View all 39 editions?
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
2006, Penguin Books
Paperback
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- Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
0143039970 9780143039976
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
1984, Penguin Books
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
May 20, 1970, Penguin (Non-Classics)
Paperback
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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.
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