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This is Oscar Wilde’s first published story, in 1887, a year before The Happy Prince, and five years after he’d travelled in the USA. It features his oft misquoted line:
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
It’s a curiosity: funny, but mostly not in a Wildean way; ghostly, but not remotely scary; overdoing some stereotypes (Americans), and underdoing others (what ghosts can feel and do); not quite a children’s story, but not really an adult one ...more
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
It’s a curiosity: funny, but mostly not in a Wildean way; ghostly, but not remotely scary; overdoing some stereotypes (Americans), and underdoing others (what ghosts can feel and do); not quite a children’s story, but not really an adult one ...more
Nov 01, 2009
Danielle The Book Huntress
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Now that was a good ghost story. It was refreshing. I loved the humor, but there was also pathos. I kind of liked the old crusty Canterville ghost, even though he was kind of evil. I loved how the Otis children turned the tables on him. And how Virginia felt sad for Sir Simon, and helped him to get closure.
This is the second story I've read by Oscar Wilde, and I must say, I am very impressed with his writing. His work has a depth, but an airy lightness to it, and a hard to define beauty to it. ...more
This is the second story I've read by Oscar Wilde, and I must say, I am very impressed with his writing. His work has a depth, but an airy lightness to it, and a hard to define beauty to it. ...more
May 17, 2011
Roos
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Jul 05, 2011
Michal
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Apr 01, 2012
Tim Goebel
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Jun 16, 2012
Emma
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Oct 21, 2013
Deppie
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Jan 19, 2014
Entre Chás e Cafés ❀Renata CR❀
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Nov 03, 2015
Terri
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