by Oscar Wilde · Dover Publications Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486419251
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«The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories» is Oscar Wilde's collection of short stories published by Dover Publications in paperback (80 pages, in English).
The story that opens the volume features a three-hundred-year-old ghost who tries to terrify the new tenants of his mansion, an American family unimpressed by his tricks. This tale is followed by other stories by Oscar Wilde, such as «The Model Millionaire», «Lord Arthur Savile's Crime» and «The Sphinx Without a Secret», along with the «Poems in Prose», all with his characteristic blend of irony, humour and Victorian social criticism.
The volume brings together eleven pieces and belongs to the Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories series; the edition was published in 2001.
Suitable for young readers and for those seeking a first approach to Oscar Wilde's short fiction in its original English.
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.
