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The poor old Canterville Ghost does not know what to do. His work is to frighten people, but the Americans who have just moved into Canterville Chase are not frightened by anything he does to them. Things get even worse when the young twins start to play tricks on him. The Canterville Ghost is three hundred years old. He is very tired, but he cannot rest. He would like to stop frightening people and go to sleep for ever more in the Garden of Death, but he cannot open the gate.

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He would like to stop frightening people and go to sleep for ever more in the Garden of Death, but he cannot open the door. As he wonders if anyone will help him, Virginia, the beautiful daughter of the family, comes to talk to him. In this and six other short stories, love and selfishness meet in different ways. The results are sometimes sad and sometimes funny, but always interesting.

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The Canterville Ghost is three hundred years old.

Flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde had a reputation that preceded him, especially in his early career. Books are well written or badly written. He was born to a middle-class Irish family (his father was a surgeon) and was trained as a scholarship boy at Trinity College, Dublin. He subsequently won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was heavily influenced by John Ruskin and Walter Pater, whose aestheticism was taken to its radical extreme in Wilde's work. Wilde simultaneously dismissed and encouraged such criticism with his statement in the preface, "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.

8. the canterville ghost and other stories. Published by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (1992).

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The Canterville Ghost is one of three stories in this book. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, Lord Arthur meets the rather unpleasant Mr Podgers at one of Lady Windermere’s parties, and his whole life changes. He was going to marry Sybil Merton, one of the most beautiful girls in London. But now, before he can marry the lovely Sybil, he has to murder someone! The third story, The Sphinx Without a Secret, is about the secret life of beautiful, mysterious Lady Alroy

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde is a light-hearted novella that parodies gothic horror as well as cultural differences between the United States and the United Kingdom.

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde is a light-hearted novella that parodies gothic horror as well as cultural differences between the United States and the United Kingdom. The Family Otis from USA decided to purchase Canterville Chase from England, however the Lord Canterville warned Hiram Otis of the existence of one ghost. History & Fiction.