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The Canterville Ghost

by Oscar Wilde, Wallace Goldsmith (Illustrator) & Lisbeth Zwerger

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Albanian, Czech, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Multiple languages, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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"The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde is a humorous short story published in 1887. When an American family moves into a haunted English castle, they refuse to be frightened by its resident ghost, Sir Simon de Canterville. Armed with stain remover and practical solutions, the Otises respond to supernatural terrors with cheerful pragmatism, leaving the centuries-old ghost increasingly humiliated. Only young Virginia sees beyond the comedy to understand the tragic spirit's desperate need for peace and redemption. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from austrian-national-library, openlibrary, and project-gutenberg matched “Gespenst”, “ghost”, and “Ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “ghost” in the title, “ghost” in the description, “haunted” in the description, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Gespenst”· via Austrian National Library
    • “Ghosts”· via Open Library
    • “ghost”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “ghost”· in title
    • “ghost”· in description
    • “haunted”· in description

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Editions

Open Library reports 138 editions; 3 cataloged here.

English edition

42 ungezählte Seiten; classic-minedition; Illustrationen; ONB availability: 43ACC_ONB | Main Stacks at Heldenplatz (MAG) | 2178605-B | available | Central Service Facility at Heldenplatz (NEU)

2016Michael Neugebauer Publishing LtdEnglish
  • 9789888341153
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Kentervil'skoe prividenie

1994SkazRussian
  • 9789854000084
  • 9854000087
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Project Gutenberg electronic edition

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2004-12-30Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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Austrian control number
  • AC16135734
Austrian National Library
  • 9958803370403338

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  • Open Library reports 138 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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openlibrary-work:OL14877871W
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