by Oscar Wilde · Gallimard jeunesse · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070585793
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«Le fantôme de Canterville», followed by «Le crime de Lord Arthur Savile», is a volume of short stories by Oscar Wilde (Gallimard jeunesse, paperback, 126 pp.).
The American Otis family moves into an English mansion and, instead of letting themselves be terrorized, turns the Canterville ghost into the butt of their jokes; a satire on fear and cultural differences. The volume is completed by «Le crime de Lord Arthur Savile», a black-humour tale featuring an aristocrat as protagonist.
Published in 1994 in the Folio Junior collection, with French translation by Henri Robillot and Yann Couvin.
Aimed at readers aged 9 to 12 and at those approaching reading in French.
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.
