by Oscar Wilde · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070515820
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«Le Fantôme de Canterville» is Oscar Wilde's book of short stories, published by Gallimard in paperback format (126 pages, in French).
An American family buys Canterville Castle with a ghost included. Sir Simon, used to terrorizing, fails to scare the Otises; the twins play pranks on him and his appearances become routine. The volume adds «Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile», about an aristocrat who believes he must commit a crime.
This edition belongs to the Folio Junior collection, with a translation by Henri Robillot and illustrations by Yann Couvin.
An edition aimed at young readers: a brief classic with gothic humor, irony and absurd situations.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
