by Oscar Wilde · Editorial · ISBN 9782350240633
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The Canterville Ghost is a short novel by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde, first published in 1887. The story tells the adventures of an American family that moves to a haunted English castle, Canterville Chase. The ghost that inhabits it, Sir Simon de Canterville, tries to scare them, but the family is not intimidated and, instead, torments him with their modern customs and lack of superstition. As the story progresses, the eldest daughter of the family, Virginia, takes pity on the ghost and helps him find peace.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
