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Title:The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
Price:USD$10.00
Category:Poetry
Item ID:BB06-53072
Quantity:1
Publisher:Unicorn Press, London, 1945
Edition:Reprint
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
Unicorn Press, 1945, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Reprint

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." Size: 180mm - 250mm. 32 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumpig to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; Britain/UK; Inventory No: 53072.
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