We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Orange Collection)

Shirley Jackson

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The Penguin Orange Collection: a limited-edition run of twelve influential and beloved Penguin Classics with a touch of modern Deluxe design.

Perhaps the crowning achievement of Shirley Jackson's brilliant career: a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the dramatic struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

"My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise, I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead."