Considered Oscar Wilde's most widely published work, El fantasma de Canterville is an elegant social satire. It tells the tale of an American family who move into the British castle, Canterville Chase, much to the aggravation of its tired ghost. Oscar Wilde didn't talk, he told stories. He was already renowned for his brilliant talent and honed wit when he began publishing his first stories in the late 1880s. He wrote everything from heartwarming children's stories like The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant to outlandish comedies like The Canterville Ghost, his greatest work. published, which can be read as elegant social satire. In this volume, Wilde's stories are arranged chronologically in three collections with the chimerical poem Ballad of Reading Gaol as the colophon.