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The Canterville Ghost
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Narrator
- Mark Young
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Publish Date
- 27 January 2026
- Run Time
- 1 hour 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Narrator
- Mark Young
- Duration
- 1 hour 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 January 2026
- ISBN
- 9783711949974
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
"The Canterville Ghost" The first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in the magazine The Court and Society Review in February 1887. When a family from the United States buys Canterville Chase, they are told it is haunted by a horrible spirit, but this does not deter them in the slightest. Indeed, when they find a recurring blood stain on the floor, and hear creaking chains in the night, even seeing the ghost himself, all they do is clean up the blood and insist that the ghost oil his manacles if he is going to keep living in the house. This perturbs the ghost to no end, and he does everything he can to try to frighten the family.
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