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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

深夜里的锁链声。美国外交官奥蒂斯先生搬进了一座古老的英国庄园。一天夜里,他打开房门:一个浑身锁链的幽灵就站在面前。奥蒂斯先生十分镇定。

The world of the book

住进英国庄园的美国人。在维多利亚女王时代的英国,贵族世家住在古老的庄园里,满是盔甲、肖像和鬼故事。一个只相信进步的美国家庭,住进了其中一座。

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