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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

深夜裡的鎖鏈聲。美國外交官奧蒂斯先生搬進了一座古老的英國莊園。一天夜裡,他打開房門:一個渾身鎖鏈的幽靈就站在面前。奧蒂斯先生十分鎮定。

The world of the book

住進英國莊園的美國人。在維多利亞女王時代的英國,貴族世家住在古老的莊園裡,滿是盔甲、肖像和鬼故事。一個只相信進步的美國家庭,住進了其中一座。

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