Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde

42 pages paperback 1896

62 editions

fiction classics poetry reflective slow-paced
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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 mur...

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