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The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

Start date: July 1, 2024

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Nov 30, 2013 Stephen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: z-read-in-2013, literature, and-saw-the-movie, historical-fiction, short-stories

Oscar Wilde was great when it came to writing dialogue and his sense of the ridiculous was finely tuned making his plays gems and works of brilliance. However I was disappointed with the original prose version of The Picture of Dorian Gray when I read it in its original form. I guess I was expecting too much.

Conversely I'd seen a number of movies based on this tale and wasn't expecting much but the short story was a joy to read and exhibited the wit that made his plays so well loved. It was a p ...more

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May 15, 2013 Carys rated it it was amazing

Shelves: paranormal-fantasy, blown-away, always-in-style, re-read-some-day, bestest-authors, bestest

I loved this book - I read it for the first time when I was about 12 and thought it was great. Since then I have read it about 3 times and will continue to read it again and again and again. It is such a different take on a ghost story with typical Mr Wilde humour.

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