by Oscar Wilde · Nelson ELT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780175565559
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«The Canterville Ghost» is Oscar Wilde's short story, published by Nelson ELT in paperback (in English).
An American family moves into the British mansion at Canterville Chase and unsettles its old ghost, who is unable to scare them. With irony, Oscar Wilde portrays the contrast between the American mentality and the English nobility, and leads the story, full of allusions, toward a sentimental ending.
1991 edition, in the Nelson Readers series, level 2 (Elementary), with a vocabulary of 600 words.
For elementary-level students of English who approach the classics through graded readers.
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.
