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The Ballad Of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde

The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde

58 pages first pub 1896 (view editions)

fiction classics poetry dark tense medium-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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