The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde

eBook - 2013

In 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labor as punishment for having engaged in homosexual acts. While serving out his sentence at Reading Gaol in Berkshire, Wilde witnessed the execution by hanging of a young soldier who had murdered his wife by slashing her throat. Profoundly shaken by the execution and the crime that preceded it, Wilde composed this elegiac poem centered on the haunting refrain, "Yet each man kills the thing he loves."

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Published
Duke Classics
Language
English
Main Author
Oscar Wilde
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook, Open EPUB eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size260 MB
ISBN9781620133354
Release Date6/10/2013
Kindle Book
ASINB000FC22IQ
Release Date6/10/2013
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781620133354
Release Date6/10/2013
Open EPUB eBook
File Size259 MB
ISBN9781620133354
Release Date6/10/2013