Name: The Canterville Ghost
SKU: 56576155
Price: 622.00 TWD
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Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781539542049

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oscar Wilde

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.2 cm

Weight

0.06 kg.

ISBN13

9781539542049

Synopsis "The Canterville Ghost"

It is a story writer, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde British-Irish, first published in 1887 in The Court and Society Review. In 1891 he was included in a collection of short stories entitled The Crime of Lord Arthur Saville and other stories. It has been made into a film and theater numerous times, and have been made for television and radio versions. An American family bought Canterville castle, in a beautiful location in the English countryside seven miles from Ascot, England. Hiram B. Otis moved with his family to the castle, but Lord Canterville, former owner thereof, warns that the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville walks in the building from no less than three hundred years after murdering his wife Lady Eleonore Canterville. But Mr. Otis, modern and practical American, ignores his warnings. So, with his wife Lucretia, the eldest son Washington, the beautiful daughter Virginia and two mischievous twins move to the mansion, constantly taunting ghost because his indifference to the paranormal.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most prominent playwrights of late Victorian London. Additionally, he was a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, his short stories, his plays, his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his premature death.

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