I Had Seen Castles is a 1993 novella for young adults by the American writer and Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant.

I Had Seen Castles
AuthorCynthia Rylant
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherHarcourt, Brace & Company
Publication date
1993
Media typePrint (Hardback
Pages97 pp
ISBN0-15-238003-5
OCLC27434463
LC ClassPZ7.R982 Iad 1993

Plot summary edit

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 edit

"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]

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