The Canterville Ghost
126 pages
|Published: 23 Feb 1987
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ISBN: 9780744549515
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Walker Books
Publication date: 1 January 1997
Description
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...