We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Softcover

Jackson, Shirley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143039970 ISBN 13: 9780143039976

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"A marvelous elucidation of life...a story full of craft and full of mystery" --The New York Times Book Review

"A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty" --The New York Times

"I was thrilled by the genuine but meaningful strangeness of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle." --George Saunders

"Jackson's novel is so wonderfully creepy that students usually feel subversive just for reading it. Add to that one of the most brilliantly realized unreliable narrators in fiction and the book becomes irresistible." --Marlon James

About the Author:

Shirley Jackson (1919–1965), a celebrated writer of horror, wrote many stories as well as six novels and two works of nonfiction.

Jonathan Lethem is the author of numerous acclaimed novels, including Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude.

Thomas Ott is a Swiss artist who makes wordless scratchboard comics that depict the darker side of life with painstaking clarity. His books include Hellville and Tales from the Edge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143039970
• ISBN 13: 9780143039976
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Ott Thomas