Download or read book The Canterville Ghost written by Oscar Wilde and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »The Canterville Ghost« is a short story by Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1891. OSCAR WILDE, born in 1854 in Dublin, died in 1900 in Paris, was an Irish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Wilde's significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals around the world is immeasurable. Wilde himself was sentenced to prison and hard labour, his works were boycotted, theatrical productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890] is his most famous work.
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories written by Oscar Wilde and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few authors are as closely associated with English wit as Oscar Wilde: the sharp-witted dandy, always ready with a cutting remark. His brilliant conversational skills made him famous even before he began his literary career. The stories in this volume showcase his drastic humour and scathing social critique. Among them, »The Model Millionaire« upends social hierarchies, and in »The Canterville Ghost,« ancient traditions meet modern times in the form of a vulgar and unsentimental American family, creating problems for a ghost that has had it too easy for centuries. OSCAR WILDE, born in 1854 in Dublin, died in 1900 in Paris, was an Irish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Wilde's significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals around the world is immeasurable. Wilde himself was sentenced to prison and hard labour, his works were boycotted, theatrical productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890] is his most famous work.
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost The Happy Prince and Other Stories written by Oscar Wilde and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous: 'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spirit that haunts an old English castle and 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed. Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.
Download or read book Please Miss written by Grace Lavery and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The queer memoir you’ve been waiting for”—Carmen Maria Machado Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives. Misadventures abound: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard and is reprogrammed as a sixties femmebot; she writes a Juggalo Ghostbusters prequel and a socialist manifesto disguised as a porn parody of a quiz show. Or is it vice versa? As Grace fumbles toward a new trans identity, she tries on dozens of different voices, creating a coat of many colors. With more dick jokes than a transsexual should be able to pull off, Please Miss gives us what we came for, then slaps us in the face and orders us to come again.
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost written by Oscar Wilde and published by FV Éditions. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James.
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost Mit Materialien written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost written by Oscar Wilde and published by Usborne. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated adaptation of Oscar Wilde's story about a ghost who is outraged when the new owners of his haunted house refuse to take him seriously.
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost Illustrated written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Canterville Ghost" is a short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887.
Download or read book Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Canterville Ghost written by Oscar Wilde and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for young learners Word count 6,100 Bestseller
Download or read book Penguin Readers Level 1 The Canterville Ghost ELT Graded Reader written by Oscar Wilde and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. The Canterville Ghost, a Level 1 Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the past simple tense and some simple modals, adverbs and gerunds. Illustrations support the text throughout, and many titles at this level are graphic novels. An American family buys Canterville Hall - a house with a ghost. But the ghost is not happy because it cannot frighten the family. Visit the Penguin Readers website Register to access online resources including tests, worksheets and answer keys. Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock a digital book and audio edition (not available with the eBook).
Download or read book The Canterville Ghot Class Hini English 11th written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost written by Oscar Wilde and published by Giunti Editore. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost written by and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1887, this is one of Oscar Wilde's finest short stories. It is a humorous and touching ghost story that takes place in Canterville Chase, a very British mansion with a very gloomy housekeeper; it is here that the Canterville Ghost has gleefully caused death and mayhem for hundreds of years -- that is, until the American family arrives. Now, remorseful and looking for love, the Canterville Ghost meets young Virginia, unafraid and innocent. Will she fall prey to his wickedness, or help him find peace? Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost Annotated Illustrated written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Canterville Ghost is a short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts 23 February and 2 March 1887.The story is about an American family who move to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers.The story begins when the American Minister Mr Otis and his family move into Canterville Chase, despite warnings from Lord Canterville that the house is haunted. Mr Otis says that he will take the furniture as well as the ghost at valuation. The Otis family includes Mr and Mrs Otis, their eldest son Washington, their daughter Virginia, and the Otis twins. The other characters include the Canterville Ghost, the Duke of Cheshire Mrs Umney and Rev Augustus Dampier. At first, none of the Otis family believe in ghosts, but shortly after they move in, none of them can deny the presence of Sir Simon de Canterville. The family hears clanking chains, they witness reappearing bloodstains on the floor just by the fireplace, which are removed every time they appear in various forms. But, humorously, none of these scare the Otis family in the least. In fact, upon hearing the clanking noises in the hallway, Mr Otis promptly gets out of bed and pragmatically offers the ghost Tammany Rising Sun Lubricator to oil his chains."
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotations-AUTHOR-The Canterville Ghost Summary-The Canterville Ghost Glossary-The Canterville Ghost Themes-The Canterville Ghost Quotes and Analysis-The Canterville Ghost Symbols, Allegory and Motifs-The Canterville Ghost Metaphors and Similes-The Canterville Ghost Irony-The Canterville Ghost Imagery-The Canterville Ghost The Canterville Ghost and Gothic LiteratureHorace B. Otis, a wealthy American, purchases Canterville Chase, an ancient English manor-house, despite warnings that the house is known to be haunted. He moves into the house accompanied by his wife, his eldest son Washington, his daughter Virginia, and his two younger twin sons. Immediately upon arrival, the family is confronted by a bloodstain in a sitting room. The housekeeper, Mrs. Umney, explains that the stain has been there since 1575 and is the result of Lady Eleanore de Canterville having been brutally murdered by her husband, Sir Simon de Canterville.The Otis family takes a pragmatic perspective and scrubs the stain away; they repeat the process when the stain continues to reappear every morning. The stubborn reappearance of the stain, as well as other strange occurrences around the house, leads them to consider that the rumor of the ghost may not be totally unfounded. These ideas are confirmed when one night, the sound of clanking chains wakes Mr Otis from his sleep. He gets out of bed and confronts a terrifying ghost, but responds only by recommending that the ghost oil his chains so that he does not cause so much noise when he is walking around at night.Mr. Otis is not the only family member who is not afraid of the ghost: the young twins enjoy tormenting the ghost with pranks. The ghost is very proud of his tradition of terrifying visitors for hundreds of years, and he is determined to strike fear into the American family. However, the more and more terrifying he tries to be, the more they either make fun of or ignore him. Things hit rock bottom for the Canterville Ghost when the twins actually create a fake ghost of their own to scare the real ghost. He accepts that he has lost his status and power, and he begins to become depressed and pine away.Meanwhile, Virginia's beauty has attracted the attention of the young Duke of Cheshire, who comes to stay at Canterville Chase. While he is visiting, Virginia unexpectedly comes across the secret hiding lair of the ghost. The ghost explains his sadness and suffering, telling her that he longs for the peaceful experience of death. He also tells her that because of her purity and innocence, she can help him to achieve this peace. Even though she is frightened, Virginia agrees to help; the two of them pass through a secret opening in the wall and vanish.When Virginia cannot be found, her family and the Duke become very upset. A few hours later, Virginia appears in the dark at the top of the stairs. Her only explanation of her disappearance is that she has assisted in finally bringing eternal rest to the Canterville Ghost. As a token of his thanks and affection, Sir Simon has given her a box filled with jewels. Virginia leads the family into a secret chamber, where they are greeted by the sight of his skeletal remains. Four days later, Sir Simon's body is finally laid to rest with a proper burial.Virginia subsequently marries the Duke of Cheshire. Although she never tells anyone what she experienced when she vanished with the Ghost, she always reflects affectionately on him and his memory.
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost written by Oscar Wilde and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canterville Ghost written by Peter Quilter and published by Samuel French Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charming, funny and tuneful family show for all ages.
