Yesterday, at the hotel in Worcester, Massachusetts, at which I was staying during my visit to Holy Cross College, famous to Chestertonians for GKC’s filmed visit there during the dark days of Prohibition, I found a few moments to read this excellent article by Sean Fitzpatrick on Wilde’s “Canterville Ghost”. It’s a delightfully rollicking piece of writing.

My only criticism is Mr. Fitzpatrick’s quoting of Wilde’s iconoclastic “moral or immoral book” aphorism without balancing it, as is surely necessary, with the other aphorisms from the same Preface (to Dorian Gray) which contradict it.

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2014/canterville-ghost-oscar-wilde-well-written-hell-raising