#we have always lived in a castle

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Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)

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Cover art for the paperback edition of Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" - by William Teason

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opening paragraphs of all time

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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Upgraded to this amazing edition of We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson: English covers

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(Literary License Podcast)

Book:   We Have Always Lived in The Castle

     By Shirley Jackson

 Film:   We Have Always Live in the Castle

   (2018)

 We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a 1962 mystery novel by American author Shirley Jackson. It was Jackson's final work, and was published with a dedication to Pascal Covici, the publisher, three years before the author's death in 1965. The novel is written in the voice of eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood, who lives with her sister and uncle on an estate in Vermont. Six years before the events of the novel, the Blackwood family experienced a tragedy that left the three survivors isolated from their small village.  The novel was first published in hardcover in North America by Viking Press, and has since been released in paperback and as an audiobook and e-book.[2] It has been described as Jackson's masterpiece.

 We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a 2018 American mystery thriller film directed by Stacie Passon, written by Mark Kruger, and starring Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover, and Sebastian Stan. It was based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson.

  Opening Credits; Introduction (2:31); Amazing Design Advertisement ( 19.14); Background History (20.26); Plot Synopsis (21.26); Book Thoughts (25.32); Let's Rate (1:07.56); Introducing a Film (1:16.06); We Have Always Lived In The Castle Film Trailer (1:17.11); Lights, Camera, Action (1:19.02); How Many Stars (1:59.49); End Credits (2:04.39); Closing Credits (2:06.26)

 Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – copyright 2021. All rights reserved

 Closing Credits:  I’ll Be Home For Christmas by Elvis Presley and Carrie Underwood.  Taken from the album Christmas Duets.  Copyright 2008 RCA Victor Records

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Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 All rights reserved.  Used with Kind Permission.

 All songs available through Amazon Music.

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Shirley Jackson, from We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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me sexting: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

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We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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SEBASTIAN STAN as CHARLES BLACKWOOD We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018) | dir. Stacie Passon

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We Have Always Lived In This Castle (2018)

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Vintage Shirley Jackson paperbacks

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We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson // illustrated by Annie Hoffmeister // Folio Society 2023

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"They came in the night and took him away, and we stayed here on the moon."

"I'm glad to be here," she said. "Thank you for bringing me."

Drew the Blackwood sisters for an art contest on instagram, I had so much fun composing this one and thinking about the details in it !

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melody / gloucester / pegasus

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silly merricat :)