Publisher Description
Una acomodada familia americana adquiere un castillo en Inglaterra con fantasma incluido. Esta convivencia cambiará la vida del temido Fantasma de Canterville, y la escéptica forma de pensar de los americanos. La historia está impregnada de ingeniosas conversaciones y la divertida ironía del genial autor irlandés.
A rich American family acquires a haunted castle in England. This living together will change the ghost's life, and the sceptical way of thinking of the American family. Wilde mixes the macabre with comedy, juxtaposing devices from traditional English ghost stories with symbols of modern American consumerism.
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"Ahh. This book is certainly is a lovely change from the usual screams of horror that accompanies a book with a ghost in it. I laughed so much when the ghost was first introduced. A good book for a rainy or depressing day! Anyone looking to read this is making a correct choice!!!"
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About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin. He won scholarships to both Trinity College, Dublin, and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1875, he began publishing poetry in literary magazines, and in 1878, he won the coveted Newdigate Prize for English poetry. He had a reputation as a flamboyant wit and man-about-town. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, and A House of Pomegranates, together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent. That reputation was confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society comedies: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on London’s West End stage between 1892 and 1895. In 1895, he was convicted of engaging in homosexual acts, which were then illegal, and sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labor. He soon declared bankruptcy, and his property was auctioned off. In 1896, he lost legal custody of his children. When his mother died that same year, his wife Constance visited him at the jail to bring him the news. It was the last time they saw each other. In the years after his release, his health deteriorated. In November 1900, he died in Paris at the age of forty-six.