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 | | Oscar Wilde. The Canterville Ghost. 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. | Elibron Classics, 2003, 128 pages.
ISBN 9780543678102 paperback
ISBN 9780543678096 hardcover |
| Illustrator: | Wallace Goldsmith |
Replica of 1906 edition by John W. Luce and Company, Boston and London. | | Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), list of works | |  | | His name has become an adjective, Wildean, the absolute signifier of all that is witty, stylish, and subversive. The original dandy, Wilde is as much known for his celebrated life of pleasure, scandal, and tragedy, as for his comic plays, seething novels, sentimental fairy tales, and pithy sayings. His rise to fame for such plays as The Importance of Being Earnest and his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and his subsequent fall into disgrace, exile, and imprisonment due to his conviction under draconian English sodomy laws make Wilde the most personally intriguing of the late Victorian writers. |
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