The Canterville Ghost is the ghost of an earlier dead Duke of Canterville, who murdered his wife in 1584 and is since haunting in the Canterville Chase.
During the industrial revolution an American Minister, called Mr. Hiram B. Otis, with his family wants to buy an old big house in England. For this he buys Canterville Chase in England, from Lord Canterville. Even though everybody warns him of an old ghost who lives in that house for over 3 centuries, he still wants to buy the house. He plans to catch the ghost and then have it on the "public museums, or on the road as a show!", but he doesn't believe that "there is no such thing, Sir, as a ghost!". It shows that the people don't believe in ghosts and stories about ghosts. It shows that the evolution is still proceeding and the believe in the elder things like myths, legends and other stories is lost for the new generations.
The first time the family gets in touch with the work of the ghost, are the blood traces in the library.......

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Title: Chapter 1 Journal Of Mice And Men John Steinbeck
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