The Ballad Of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

The Ballad Of Reading Gaol by Oscar WildeIn 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

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