I Had Seen Castles
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I Had Seen Castles is a 1993 novella for young adults by the American writer and Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant.
Plot summary
It is a story about a young American named John Dante who enthusiastically enlists in 1942 but soon comes to understand the horrors of war.
It can be deemed as an anti-war novel due to Rylants way of describing the War and its consequences.
Reviews
"The volume is deceptively slim; this finely drawn novel projects emotional truths to rival those of Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front."[1]
References
- ^ "I Had Seen Castles ", Publishers Weekly
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Works by Cynthia Rylant
- Poppleton (1997)
- When I Was Young in the Mountains (1982)
- Missing May (1992)
- Every Living Thing (1985)
- I Had Seen Castles (1993)
- The Islander (1998)
- Old Town in the Green Groves (2002)
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