She captures the heart of Lord Murchison with this mystery, to where he follows her to find out her secret. Lady Alroy is enigmatic in everything she does-a lady with the mysterious allure of a sphinx. The story of The Sphinx Without a Secret is told in the title. The murder is done, and he is free to marry and live happily ever after. Finally, he meets the chiromantist by chance near the river and pushes him into the water. He then tries to blow up his uncle, the Dean of Chichester, but the bomb makes a series of small explosions that amuse the children of the house. He tries to poison his second cousin, Lady Clementina,-but she dies of natural causes without taking the poison. The man tells Lord Arthur that he sees murder in the young man’s hand… so, Lord Arthur, after a period of terror, decides to commit the murder immediately and get it out of the way so that he can get on with the rest of his life.
But then a chance palmreading by a chiromantist, Mr Podgers, changes his life. Lord Arthur has everything-he is rich and handsome, and he is about to marry a beautiful girl. Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime is also murder-a murder yet to be committed. Finally, the ghost confesses his problems to the girl of the family, Virginia, and she helps him to find eternal rest.
The ghost has successfully haunted Canterville Chase for hundreds of years, but the Otis family from America prove too much for him, with their practical solutions to all ghostly manifestations, and the terrible twins who torment him until all he dares to do is creep around the house as quietly as possible, instead of wailing and rattling his chains. And yet, the story of the Canterville Ghost is largely a comedy. He was punished for it by his wife’s brothers, who locked him up in a room to starve to death. The Canterville Ghost in real life committed a terrible crime-he killed his wife because she was plain and a bad housekeeper. Lord Canterville himself told Mr Otis this when they were discussing the sale.” There was no doubt that the place was haunted, they said. Otis, the American Ambassador, bought Canterville Chase, people told him that he was doing a very dangerous thing.
Themes: Ghost Story/ English Old World vs the American New World/ Duty/ Irony Genres: EnglishGradedReaders/ Fiction/ Adaptation/ Horror/ Comedy/ Gothic Fiction/ Parody/ Short Stories Collection The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories - John Davage (Retold by), Oscar Wilde (2015)
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