The Ballad of Reading Gaol
$23.54
- Paperback
72 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2011
Summary
In May of 1895, the most dazzling man of letters of the nineteenth century was sentenced to two years with hard labour for ‘acts of gross indecency with another male person.’ On his release he moved to France, where he wrote the Ballad: an anguished plea for prison reform, and a passionate expression of sympathy for his fellow prisoners, those “souls in pain”. Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol was a success from its first publication, and to this day some of its lines are amo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781901677751 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1901677753 |
| Author: | Oscar Wilde, Peter Hay, Peter Stoneley |
| Publisher: | Two Rivers Press |
| Imprint: | Two Rivers Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 72 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 135mm x 213mm |
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Oscar Wilde
Born in Ireland in 1856, Oscar Wilde was a noted essayist, playwright, fairy tale writer and poet, as well as an early leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His plays include: “An Ideal Husband, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, ” and “Lady Windermere’s Fan.” Among his best known stories are “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and “The Canterville Ghost”.
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