Oxford Bookworms 2 : The Canterville Ghost

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio. There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville`s family have had enough of it.

So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family.

Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy thehouse and the ghost - because of course Americans don`t believe in ghosts.

The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family.

But Americans don`t frighten easily - especially not two noisy little boys - and the poor ghost has a few surprises waiting for him. CEFR A2/B1Word count6,100