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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

Um ruído de correntes a meio da noite. Mr. Otis, um diplomata americano, instala-se numa velha mansão inglesa. Uma noite, abre a porta: um fantasma coberto de correntes está diante dele. Mr. Otis mantém toda a calma.

The world of the book

Uma mansão inglesa para americanos. Na Inglaterra da rainha Vitória, as famílias nobres vivem em mansões muito antigas, cheias de armaduras, retratos e histórias de fantasmas. Uma família americana que só acredita no…

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