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Canterville Ghost
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

By

OSCAR WILDE
Illustrated by

WALLACE GOLDSMITH
AN ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES
PUBLICATION

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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

By

OSCAR WILDE
Illustrated by

WALLACE GOLDSMITH
1906
John W. Luce and Company
Boston and London
I

W

MR. HIRAM B. OTIS, the American Minister,

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