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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

by Oscar Wilde
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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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Publisher: Duke Classics

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  • Release date: June 10, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781620133354
  • Release date: June 10, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781620133354
  • File size: 261 KB
  • Release date: June 10, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781620133354
  • File size: 259 KB
  • Release date: June 10, 2013

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Fiction Poetry

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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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Fiction Poetry
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Duke Classics

    Kindle Book
    Release date: June 10, 2013

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781620133354
    Release date: June 10, 2013

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781620133354
    File size: 261 KB
    Release date: June 10, 2013

    Open EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781620133354
    File size: 259 KB
    Release date: June 10, 2013

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    Open EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
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