by Oscar Wilde · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194229661
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«The Canterville Ghost» is Oscar Wilde's ghost story in a graded reader edition (level 2), in paperback (64 pages, in English).
A ghost has been appearing in the Canterville manor house for three hundred years, until Lord Canterville sells it to the Otis family, Americans who don't believe in apparitions. The spectre tries to scare them with his old tricks, but the Otises, including two noisy children, are not intimidated and give him more than one fright.
Edition adapted by John Escott for the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, level 2 (700 headwords). Oscar Wilde's original story was published in 1887.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language and young readers aged 14 and up.
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.
