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The Canterville Ghost
About this work
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance.
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Subjects
- Fiction
- Ghosts
- Fairy tales
- Readers
- German language
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Children's fiction
- Ghosts, fiction
- England, fiction