The Canterville ghost

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Oscar Wilde: The Canterville ghost (1987, Oxford University Press)

64 pages

English language

Published Nov. 9, 1987 by Oxford University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-19-278118-5
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This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance.

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