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The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

The Canterville Ghost

Paper book: €11.99

Digital: €1.99

Original publication
1887
Pages
92
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Humor, Horror
Moods
Have a laugh, Get the chills, Be enchanted
Translated from
English

Book summary

An American family buys an old English castle, haunted for three centuries by the ghost of Sir Simon. But the newcomers are afraid of nothing: they scrub away the bloodstain he makes reappear every night, and offer him oil for his noisy chains.

A ghost story turned upside down, in which it is the ghost who ends up terrified, full of humour and, little by little, of tenderness.

You can read this short story by Oscar Wilde in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

真夜中に響く鎖の音。アメリカの外交官オーティス氏が、イギリスの古い屋敷に移り住む。ある夜、扉を開けると、鎖をまとった幽霊が目の前に立っていた。オーティス氏は少しも動じない。

The world of the book

アメリカ人一家とイギリスの屋敷。ヴィクトリア女王の時代のイギリス。貴族たちは鎧や肖像画、幽霊話に満ちた古い屋敷に暮らす。そのひとつに、進歩しか信じないアメリカ人一家が移り住む。

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