by Oscar Wilde · Carl Gerold´s Sohn Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780003700947
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«The Canterville Ghost» is Oscar Wilde's short novel, published by Carl Gerold´s Sohn Verlag in paperback (48 pages, in English).
An American family moves into the English castle of Canterville Chase without believing in ghosts, to the despair of Sir Simon, its ghost. The work satirizes the clash between American pragmatism and English tradition, and closes with love and forgiveness as keys.
1978 edition, abridged and annotated by K. R. Cripwell for the English Library series, with illustrations by Susan O'Carroll.
For students of English as a foreign language and for readers wanting a first approach to Oscar Wilde with a guided text.
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.
