Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde - Books - - 9798550564752 - October 20, 2020
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Oscar Wilde
Ballad of Reading Gaol

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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."

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 20, 2020
ISBN13 9798550564752
Pages 42
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 2 mm   ·   68 g
Language English  

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