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Pub. 1896, First Edition, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde, Hardcover Book.

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Pub. 1896, First Edition, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde, Hardcover Book.

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"The Ballad of Reading Gaol", Author: Oscar Wilde, Publisher: G.P. Putnam, Publish Date: 1896, Edition: First Edition. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole. No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them, but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share.

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Pub. 1896, First Edition, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde, Hardcover Book.

Name: Pub. 1896, First Edition, \"The Ballad of Reading Gaol\" by Oscar Wilde, Hardcover Book.
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