Italian · Beginner
Read Il fantasma di Canterville e il delitto di Lord Savile in Italianwith every sentence explained
English title: The Canterville Ghost and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Oscar Wilde · 1887
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About the book
Il fantasma di Canterville e il delitto di Lord Savile by Oscar Wilde was first published in 1887. In Passage you read the full text in the Italian translation by Giuseppe Vannicola, marked beginner and filed under horror and mystery and crime. It runs to about 21,300 words.
A ghost who can't scare anyone. A gentleman who must commit a murder. Wilde at his wittiest.
When the American diplomat Hiram B. Otis buys Canterville Chase, he is warned that the house is haunted. He doesn't care, and neither does his family. For three hundred years Sir Simon de Canterville has terrified everyone who crossed his path, but now his bloodstains are scrubbed away with patent cleaner and the mischievous twins set traps for him. Only young Virginia sees the sadness behind the ghost.
In the second story, a palm reader at a London party sees something terrible in Lord Arthur Savile's hand: he is destined to commit a murder. Engaged and deeply in love, Arthur decides to get the crime over with before his wedding.
Two sparkling comic tales by Oscar Wilde, here in a classic Italian translation, perfect for discovering his humour in a new language.
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- First published
- 1887
- Language
- Italian
- Translated by
- Giuseppe Vannicola
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Horror, Mystery and Crime
- Length
- About 21,300 words
How it opens
Quando il Ministro d'America, signor Hiram B. Otis, acquistò il castello di Canterville, tutti dissero che faceva una sciocchezza, poichè il castello era abitato dagli spiriti.
Lo stesso Lord Canterville, del resto, nella sua scrupolosa onestà, discutendo le condizioni dell'acquisto, si era fatto un dovere di avvertirne il signor Otis:
Reading Il fantasma di Canterville e il delitto di Lord Savile in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Italian. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of Italian and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
