Access The Canterville Ghost: The Graphic Novel Produced By Sean Michael Wilson Accessible As Digital
Wilde's clever parody provides an entertaining twist on the traditional gothic horror story, A gauche, materialistic American family moves into the English mansion of Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of the resident ghost.
Wilde creates an unforgettable gallery of characters, from Hiram B, Otis and his children to Lord Canterville and the chainclanking ghost Sir Simon, This brilliant and often overlooked story is a clever commentary on how Wilde saw "free" America challenging "traditional" England all in the guise of a charming fireside tale.
This faithful graphic novel adaptation is ideal for students and any readers who want to understand and appreciate the original story.
Runningpages and featuring stunning artwork, the book includes an illustrated character list like a dramatis personae and fascinating support material that details the life and work of Wilde.
'' I want to buy the house '', said Mr Otis, ''I'll buy the ghost as well, Will you sell Canterville Chase Will you sell the ghost ''
It's a Classic horror comedy about a rich American Family moved in England.
So, They decided, to sell a big old house which is located in the countryside outside London, But the problem is the house had a ghost,
I really enjoyed reading this Novel ,and what I have learned , is all the bad you do will come back to you : I've given other classical literature the graphic novel treatment this one didn't quite live up to my expectations, but was decent enough for theminute read.
Some speech bubbles are missing letters which made the reading a bit weird, but the art was nice.
If you've read Oscar Wilde's original you may be disappointed, If you've watched the movies you might like this better, This adaptation thoroughly shows off Oscar's Wild wit while juxtaposing the stubborn traditionalism of classical British society with the brutish materialism amp arrogance of a burgeoning American society.
Perfect for the spooky season, A delightful
read. Read alongside the Kindle edition to make sure I wasn't missing anything, Only a few sentences here and there were missing made unnecessary by the artwork from the graphic novel.
some classics are so much easier to read in graphic novel format, Even better than Barron's Graphic classics in terms of "back matter" bio, timeline, etc, etc, . . BUT not in original text which irks me! I enjoy reading British more than American especiallyth century! A woman, who decided to help the ghost, was pretty amazing.
. . I never feel disappointed with Wilde's books :Having last read The Canterville Ghost in secondary school, it was great to revisit this humorous horror story in a different form the graphic novel.
Myyearold son received this for Christmas in preparation for an opera visit tomorrow which sees the Canterville Ghost aiming to scare the audience at the Zurich Opera House.
. . in vain, I suspect.
The full colour drawings in this edition are fantastic, and the words are all the original text, so it was a truly wonderful combination to enjoy.
First read of the New Year, easing my way into the new reading challenge, : I found this story to be absolutely hysterical! Despite his greatest efforts, the Canterville ghost just can't seem to scare anyone.
No amount of blood on the floor or the rattling of chains will do the job, Frustration grows within the ghost as he falls victim to ghoulish pranks played by humans, The graphics in this comic are superb I defintely reccomend this book to anyone who would enjoy a ghost story gone awry.
What I love about this adaptations is that when the story is in their native language and also add visual elements, it helps to enhance imagination, maybe because literacy is hard for bilingual speakers, and I'm a native Spanish speaker myself, so when I was reading this it was like a big help, I know this story has a lot of adaptations, and I love this one because still gets near the story, but putting into some thrilling feeling that the original story has.
Long story shot, I love how was developed and how it's shown, also this was one of my favourite stories while I was a little girl.
Absolutely hilarious gem by Oscar Wilde, Does he ever disappoint Umm, . . this was so boring It took away all of the dark elements of the story, Its clearly barrated for children but it made the plot seem so ridculous, not even younger people would be that engaged.
Ich mag die Geschichte und hier wurde sie schön und stimmungsvoll umgesetzt als Graphic Novel, I found the Audible version of this book, quite entertaining, An American family moves into a haunted house in England, The boys in the family play tricks on the ghost, and make him feel he has no worth as a ghost.
The young girl in the family is kind to the ghost, and ends up helping him, I like the Classical Comics series of graphic novels and Oscar Wilde, Great story in full color and some biographical information at the end, One of the first horror/comedy mixes to come out, I'm not familiar with the original story by Oscar Wilde, so I cannot comment on the story itself but my guess is that I would not have liked it.
I LOVED the speed at which you can read a graphic novel AND I loved the graphics, I think I will try some others, hopefully with a better story line, What's a ghost to do when people laugh at your best attempts to terrify them
The Canterville Ghost: The Graphic Novel
by Sean Michael Wilson Adapter, Oscar Wilde, Gale Editor So I don't normally read comic books.
but I came across this item while searching for Halloween reads and I do like Oscar Wilde so I figured why not.
It is a cleaver little story and the illustrations a good, A quicky to start off my October reading, This is an amusing ghost story,
Oscar Wilde compares Americans to English throughout the story,
I think Sean M, Wilson did a good job of turning it into a graphic novel,
I liked the added bit about Oscar Wilde's life at the end of the book, as well as the part about how they make graphic novels.
I found some amusing printing errors, My library's copy hadpages
where they left out a letter in a few words, Had to guess at what was being said, . .
Spoilers
The ghost is practically laughed at and tormented by the Americans he's
trying to haunt amp scare, in his English Mansion.
You start to feel a little sorry for the ghost,
The ending was kinda creepy when the ghost takes the American's daughter through the wall,
I feel like I've seen this as a movie before, . .
This is the first graphic novel I have read, having really no interest in graphic novels at all.
It probably wasn't the best choice I could have made as I would much rather read classic literature in tried and true literary form, but given all of that, I liked it.
It seems to be part of a series of literary titles published by Classical Comics in graphic form to gin up student interest in the classics.
The story is a parody on the gothic genre so popular in Oscar Wilde's day, It turns the typical ghost story upside down and puts the ghost on the defensive, It is also a commentary on upper crust British society vs, nouveau riche, materialistic Americans. Really the only problem I had with the graphic version was the graphics! Particularly Virginia who was seemingly supposed to be a sweet slip of a thing but was drawn like a tank.
I will have to read the actual short story to make any other comparisons, There is quite a bit of information in the appendices of the book a brief bio of Oscar Wilde and some other useful and interesting support material.
I have since started a graphic novel that was meant to be a graphic novel sitelinkAmulet, Vol,: The Stonekeeper by sitelinkKazu Kibuishi which might be a better testing of the waters for me.
We'll see if I am motivated to read the entire series!,