The Canterville Ghost (short story)

Author: Oscar Wilde

Type: Short Story
Length: 26 pages

Found in: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (short story collection)

As Noted In: 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up, B E S Publishing
As Noted In: Notable Short Stories, True Tales and Mezzobulas, Phantom

When Mr Hiram B Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed, Lord Canterville himself, who was a man of the most punctilious honour, had felt it his duty to mention the fact to Mr. Otis when they came to discuss terms. Oscar Wilde

The Canterville Ghost is a 1887 short story by Irish author, Oscar Wilde. - AsNotedIn

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Places

Sunninghill and Ascot, Berkshire Mr Otis travels by waggonette one lovely July evening to Canterville Chase (fictional) seven miles from Ascot, the nearest railway station.

Timeline

Y/M/D		Association	Description	Place	Locale	Food	Event
1887/02/23	Oscar Wilde	Author	"The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde is serialized in two parts in 'The Court and Society Review', 23 February and 2 March, 1897.

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Particulars for The Canterville Ghost (short story):
Audience	Childrens
Architectural Style	English Tudor
Narrative Arts	Fiction	prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Supernatural	Ghost	an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image
Narrative Arts	Gothic Fiction	genre of decaying settings, medieval locales with dark atmosphere of isolation, mystery and terror
Narrative Arts	Narrative	an account of connected events
Narrative Arts	Prose	ordinary written language
Art Type	Short Story	short form narrative fiction
Meteorology	Stormy Weather

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