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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Wilde's meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquis of Queensberry. It relates the story of an execution of a man who murdered his wife which Wilde witnessed during his internment. Published in 1898, it was Wilde's last published poem as he would die in 1900 from cerebral menengitis, caused by syphilis.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 08/24/2015
Pages: 52
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.12d
ISBN13: 9781517025274
ISBN10: 1517025273
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | General
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Social Science | General
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Wilde's meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquis of Queensberry. It relates the story of an execution of a man who murdered his wife which Wilde witnessed during his internment. Published in 1898, it was Wilde's last published poem as he would die in 1900 from cerebral menengitis, caused by syphilis.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 08/24/2015
Pages: 52
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.12d
ISBN13: 9781517025274
ISBN10: 1517025273
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | General
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Social Science | General
About the Author
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death.
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