The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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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Duke Classics
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- English
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- Overdrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook, Open EPUB eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook | |
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File Size | 260 MB |
ISBN | 9781620133354 |
Release Date | 6/10/2013 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B000FC22IQ |
Release Date | 6/10/2013 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9781620133354 |
Release Date | 6/10/2013 |
Open EPUB eBook | |
File Size | 259 MB |
ISBN | 9781620133354 |
Release Date | 6/10/2013 |