The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

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  • Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024

Комментарии • 133

  • @MaggieatPlay
    @MaggieatPlay Год назад +38

    Yay! One of my favorites...both Oscar Wilde and "The Canterville Ghost". Thank you, Tony! Great narration.

  • @merlapittman5034
    @merlapittman5034 Год назад +48

    Oscar Wilde was a marvelous writer. I must confess that The Importance of Being Ernest and The Picture of Dorian Grey are my favorites, but The Cantorville Ghost is very good. Thank you!

    • @ScottishLeo
      @ScottishLeo 4 месяца назад +1

      YES YES!!! Ernest for fun, Dorian for horror 💚❤️💚

    • @Dorianne-wp3uo
      @Dorianne-wp3uo 16 дней назад

      De Profundis shwows his soul❤

  • @lesleykaygosson315
    @lesleykaygosson315 Год назад +16

    Classic Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Classic Author ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Classic & Perfect Narration
    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤

  • @colinellesmere
    @colinellesmere Год назад +6

    I read this as an abridged book in Chinese. Just realised it was Oscar Wilde. What a writer.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад +2

      I am very impressed that you read the Canterville ghost in Chinese

  • @TheMrCougarful
    @TheMrCougarful Год назад +13

    What an amazing tale! I was grinning the entire time. A delight.

  • @suzannemoodhe927
    @suzannemoodhe927 Год назад +20

    What an incredible reading - what a fantastic story- thank you for the laughs and all the voices you did - you are a treasure ❤

  • @vickiereed643
    @vickiereed643 Год назад +13

    Tony, you have the most excellent reading voice I have ever heard! Thank you for sharing your gifts!

  • @Aiko2-26-9
    @Aiko2-26-9 Год назад +18

    I love this story, so funny, so creepy, so heartwarming. And, Tony, you are the perfect one to read it.

  • @emnorfolk5559
    @emnorfolk5559 Год назад +8

    My first and forever favourite ghost story... Thank you, loved the "voices", reminded me of my lovely dad reading to me xxx

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад +1

      +Em Norfolk That’s how I
      started - as a dad doing the voices when reading stories to his daughters . They’re grown up now and I don’t know if they listen

  • @Story-Voracious66
    @Story-Voracious66 Год назад +15

    I was only thinking of Oscar Wilde the other day, when Stephen Frye launched his audiobook of ghost stories, then "Ta daa!", you magic up "The Canterville Ghost" for us!
    Thank you. It is such a charming story and so graciously delivered.
    👱🏻‍♀️👻☠️👍

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад +1

      +April Wakefield Like magic

    • @Story-Voracious66
      @Story-Voracious66 Год назад

      ☺️

    • @leebennett1821
      @leebennett1821 Год назад

      Really you where thinking of Oscar Wilde on a different note I find myself think about the Roman Empire quite often I don't how this relates but I thought I would mention it

  • @donaldmccleary9015
    @donaldmccleary9015 Год назад +12

    This is a great story and narration!
    I chuckled a lot. Those twins.... Their practical jokes are hilarious!
    This is a cheery ghost story. I like it.
    Thanks!

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад +3

      Glad you like them! Those pesky kids !!

    • @donaldmccleary9015
      @donaldmccleary9015 Год назад +2

      Yup. It is so good that I listened to it 2.5 times. Lol!

  • @MartiWilliams-r2z
    @MartiWilliams-r2z 2 месяца назад +1

    Love everything from Wild.. Your narration makes him even more entertaining. Thanks so very much. You're the very best, Tony. Much needed and appreciated.

  • @thurayya8905
    @thurayya8905 Год назад +5

    I love the way you read this, with the rolling "r"s and overly dramatic manner when describing the studies and poses of the ghost, as well as the serious delivery and understatement of the jokes. Wilde reminded me of Mark Twain in places, which may have been intentional as they were both very popular; after all, he was writing of Americans in a satirical manner.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад +3

      Very over the top in parts but that’s why ai liked doing it

  • @debra333
    @debra333 Год назад +5

    Ah, my favorite! Excellent job, dear Tony. ❤

  • @09purpledyer
    @09purpledyer Год назад +5

    Thank you very much!!
    Your narration is fabulous.
    You narrate so wide array of stories.
    Something for everyone.
    I once complained about a story you read and your answer made much sense.
    So glad you do this service for all who wish to hear.

  • @daviddring2365
    @daviddring2365 Год назад +8

    Love listening to Mr Wilde ..... such poetry!

  • @suzannemoodhe927
    @suzannemoodhe927 Год назад +4

    Today it is dark and gloomy outside and i feel lonely so i put this on 😌. Thanks Tony! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @veganleigh4817
    @veganleigh4817 Год назад +2

    I've always loved The Canterville Ghost. Thank you for the wonderful narration!

  • @aileenburke4667
    @aileenburke4667 9 месяцев назад +3

    This is by far the best audiobook I’ve listened to. Oscar Wilde, this story, this reader- it’s perfection. 🤌👏

  • @KristinChoruby
    @KristinChoruby Год назад +3

    I liked this one--funny and surprisingly heartwarming.

  • @DragonsEyeTours
    @DragonsEyeTours Год назад +3

    Fabulous. Thank you so much. Just love this story. So good.

  • @martiwilliams4592
    @martiwilliams4592 Год назад +1

    Love this. Thank you,again, Tony. Masterful as always.

  • @darkdaughter5472
    @darkdaughter5472 Год назад +2

    Wonderful atmospheric narration thank you

  • @susanmcgill7048
    @susanmcgill7048 11 месяцев назад +2

    As an old and retired textbook order clerk. I ordered this as required reading for many college classes. I must admit im quite sad id not attended college, i missed much. But now im seeing importance of this story 😊😊😊😊😊

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  11 месяцев назад

      It’s a deservedly loved story. I prefer Dorian Gray though :)

  • @minaozhogin
    @minaozhogin 5 месяцев назад +1

    I love the story! Oscar Wilde is by far my favourite author.
    And, I have to say, your reading is terrific! The intonations you make are perfect, will definitely check out more of your videos!

  • @gerardkiff2026
    @gerardkiff2026 Год назад +4

    What a great reading. Thank you so much. Would love to hear more comedy from you !

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад +1

      Have you heard my Humorous Ghost Stories compilation on here ?

  • @roxanavasilakis9435
    @roxanavasilakis9435 Год назад +2

    Thank you so much dear Tony 🌷

  • @hollywebster6844
    @hollywebster6844 Год назад +1

    Marvelous! Thank you!

  • @joanieann6179
    @joanieann6179 Год назад +1

    I quite enjoyed that story! Thank you Tony! ❤❤

  • @lzeph
    @lzeph Год назад +1

    Delightful story, wonderfully narrated.

  • @karensutherland9142
    @karensutherland9142 Год назад +3

    Love your channel love this story.

  • @franken-pattern
    @franken-pattern 5 месяцев назад

    I'm the 1,000th "thumbs up" on this post! HECK YEAH 🎉🎉🎉
    Thank you, Mr. Walker, for all of the wonderful hours of magical stories, told by a master storyteller! Yay!

  • @cynthiapate9138
    @cynthiapate9138 Год назад +1

    Thank you for excellent reading of a wonderful ghost story.

  • @glitterphx2490
    @glitterphx2490 Год назад +2

    Quite lovely, thank you

  • @crazy4277
    @crazy4277 Год назад +1

    I love this, thank you! ❤

  • @mikelheron20
    @mikelheron20 11 месяцев назад +1

    I've never been convinced that oiling chains would make them less noisy.

  • @tracibrown6431
    @tracibrown6431 Год назад +1

    Thanks!

  • @erinmikulice5980
    @erinmikulice5980 2 месяца назад +1

    So great! Thank you!

  • @along5925
    @along5925 Год назад +4

    Oh, I love The Canterville Ghost! I've heard a number of renditions, but I've been waiting for yours. Tony, it is far and away the best of all of them! I feel the same way about your reading of Alice in Wonderland...there are many good ones out there, but I definitely prefer yours. Thanks so much for this; I thoroughly enjoyed it.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад

      So nice if you to say such lovely things. No one listens to my Alice hardly and I so loved doing it

    • @KristinChoruby
      @KristinChoruby Год назад +1

      @@ClassicGhost I didn't know you did a reading of Alice in Wonderland! I'll have to find it and give it a listen soon.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад

      It was such fun

  • @mariameere5807
    @mariameere5807 Год назад +2

    Thank you so much! I ❤this story and all your work Tony and I have a bit of time to catch up on the episodes I missed so a binge session is in order! 😅
    Blessings angel!
    ♥️✨👑✨♥️

  • @lucamallory
    @lucamallory 10 месяцев назад

    This is such a great narration and a beautiful and hilarious story to begin with. Thank you so much for reading it! Truly an incredible story.

  • @roxyabrooks864
    @roxyabrooks864 Год назад +4

    Thanks so much! I just subscribed to your podcasts, too! Just wonderful! 🎃

  • @martiwilliams4592
    @martiwilliams4592 Год назад +1

    Captivating, enchanting also this time around with your accents and vivid. narration. Would love to hear you do LADY WINDERMERE` S FAN playing aa the parts. You, of couse, must set limits, but many would find it an amusing experience. Thanks fo much again, again for all of your hard work for us.

  • @soundsilence2604
    @soundsilence2604 Год назад +1

    Thank you for this one! ❤️

  • @faithlynn2083
    @faithlynn2083 Год назад +2

    the “HELLO” at 1:05 made me dying laughing

  • @lorihogue5015
    @lorihogue5015 Год назад +1

    I'm in a historical theatre company. My partners in crime recreate the court of Queen Elizabeth I. As actors, we study British accents. I've gotten to the point where I can recognize many regional accents. Pretty good for an American. I'm really enjoying your American accent, although I personally prefer British accents. The majority of my ancestors come from Old Blighty, so it must be a genetic thang 😜

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад +1

      The Court of Queen Elizabeth sounds fun. I hope you have Dr John Dee represented :)

    • @lorihogue5015
      @lorihogue5015 Год назад

      @@ClassicGhost I'd love that but right now we don't have an actor portraying him. Fascinating character.

    • @SukiSays23
      @SukiSays23 Месяц назад

      @@ClassicGhost

  • @jacobmetz3267
    @jacobmetz3267 6 месяцев назад +1

    The intro music is Toccata and Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach

  • @dawnmitchell5374
    @dawnmitchell5374 9 месяцев назад

    such a great listen..thank you!!!

  • @nancycardenas2724
    @nancycardenas2724 7 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent 😊❤

  • @PippaAT
    @PippaAT Год назад +1

    Reminds me a little of "How Fear Departed The Long Gallery."

  • @LadyEng
    @LadyEng Год назад +1

    Lovely ❤❤❤❤

  • @ropeburnsrussell
    @ropeburnsrussell Год назад +1

    You hired Lurch for the intro!

  • @andrewbeale6072
    @andrewbeale6072 Год назад +2

    'He rose from his seat with a faint cry of joy, and taking her hand bent over it with old-fashioned grace and kissed it. His fingers were as cold as ice, and his lips burned like fire, but Virginia did not falter, as he led her across the dusky room. On the faded green tapestry were broidered little huntsmen. They blew their tasselled horns and with their tiny hands waved to her to go back. "Go back! little Virginia," they cried, "go ​back!" but the ghost clutched her hand more tightly, and she shut her eyes against them. Horrible animals with lizard tails and goggle eyes blinked at her from the carven chimneypiece, and murmured, "Beware! little Virginia, beware! we may never see you again," but the Ghost glided on more swiftly, and Virginia did not listen. When they reached the end of the room he stopped, and muttered some words she could not understand. She opened her eyes, and saw the wall slowly fading away like a mist, and a great black cavern in front of her. A bitter cold wind swept round them, and she felt something pulling at her dress. "Quick, quick," ​cried the Ghost, "or it will be too late," and in a moment the wainscoting had closed behind them, and the Tapestry Chamber was empty.'
    Even amid the satire and broad comedy, Wilde manages to work in a few sincerely chilling moments.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад +1

      And I think some lovely descriptions

  • @jodywho6696
    @jodywho6696 11 месяцев назад

    I remember the movie. But the stars ? Charles Laugton ? The little girl ,The Secret Garden. Thank you for the telling. ✨

  • @roxanavasilakis9435
    @roxanavasilakis9435 Год назад +1

    Needed a good laugh 🎉

  • @tbone75063
    @tbone75063 2 месяца назад

    This has to be 1 of the funniest ghost stories you’ve read

  • @marywilde7378
    @marywilde7378 3 месяца назад

    6am. Construction of English is so good

  • @noahhecker6672
    @noahhecker6672 Год назад +1

    If this was made into a short film, I would have it be that the Ghost would be played by either Charlie Chaplin or Alice Cooper

  • @Story-Voracious66
    @Story-Voracious66 Год назад +1

    Hooray! 😁

  • @applewagon253
    @applewagon253 Год назад +3

    Hahahaha this was bizarre and fun!

  • @toscadonna
    @toscadonna Год назад +5

    Those pesky Americans! How dare they not take the Canterville Ghost seriously and be appropriately mortified.😂

  • @canman5060
    @canman5060 Год назад +1

    J S Bach - Toccata in D minor BWV 565.

  • @kathymcguire8287
    @kathymcguire8287 9 месяцев назад

    Usually unless I really have a specific thought about a subject I don't comment. However I do place emoj's to help with the algorithm. ❤😮😮😮❤

  • @mikedavidson1970
    @mikedavidson1970 Год назад +1

    Yesss💪

  • @lilblindbandit
    @lilblindbandit Год назад +1

    21:00

  • @THEPAGEBURNER1979
    @THEPAGEBURNER1979 Год назад +2

    O hell yes Good Times 😂

  • @smithintern-tainment7868
    @smithintern-tainment7868 8 месяцев назад +1

    Holy crap this is like a precursor to some of the horror comedy films I’ve seen. I love that it’s mostly from the ghosts perspective too. Great story and great narration.
    I will say that I was really digging it until the part where Virginia and the ghost met. It got kinda cheesy at that point. Still great job narrating though.

  • @melindalemmon2149
    @melindalemmon2149 Год назад +2

    Who is the reader

  • @sjmarham
    @sjmarham Год назад

    Hmm. How odd. No audio on phone, but other vids of yours play fine. And also on pc. How strange. Maybe my phone is haunted

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад +3

      i think it’s their processing just catching up. i have audio on my phone now

    • @johnnyblaze4546
      @johnnyblaze4546 Год назад +1

      Try closing and restarting the app. Mine did the same

  • @tripleAplay7
    @tripleAplay7 Год назад +1

    Oscar Wildes talent goes without saying - thanks for uploading!
    The American accents are pretty awful though…

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад

      Glad you liked it. I’ve commented on the purpose of the american accents elsewhere

    • @SukiSays23
      @SukiSays23 Месяц назад +1

      @@ClassicGhost for myself (an American) I find your accents amazingly good and I appreciate them for what they add to the narration. Thank you ❤

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Месяц назад +1

      @ thank you. I’m always a bit embarrassed about them but the story needs them

    • @SukiSays23
      @SukiSays23 Месяц назад

      @ pls don’t be embarrassed. Americans struggle to understand each other every day… btw your narrations are the best I’ve ever heard. I so appreciate your supplementary discussions at the end of the stories. You’re the Alastair Sims of this generation imho. Don’t laugh!

  • @TheMrCougarful
    @TheMrCougarful Год назад

    Um no audio?

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад +1

      I think it hasn’t finished processing

    • @TheMrCougarful
      @TheMrCougarful Год назад +2

      ​@@ClassicGhostYeah, I came back and it's working fine. Who knew?

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад

      The first 20 mins or so after upload (i now know) it’s silent! 🤫

  • @zajournals
    @zajournals 3 месяца назад

    I understand the synopsis states there is humor in this story but I failed to hear any. Nevertheless I enjoyed it.

  • @wdobni
    @wdobni Год назад +1

    stilted and affected .... probably similar to Wilde

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад +2

      That was what I was aiming for. I’m not Jacob Rees-Mogg in real life

  • @chouloudemusilin
    @chouloudemusilin Год назад +1

    The cover looked a little like a hezbollah dream woman😉

  • @JennyLane8666
    @JennyLane8666 9 месяцев назад

    I cannot believe I didn't know this story. It was so lovely, so funny and sad and oh! Thank you Tony! Your reading will always be the only way I'll ever think of it.