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The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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Print version:: | Wilde, Oscar, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Auckland : Floating Press, The,c1899 |
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Titel: | The Ballad of Reading Gaol. |
Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
veröffentlicht: |
Auckland :
Floating Press, The,
1899.
©2013. |
Umfang: | 1 online resource (58 pages) |
ISBN: |
9781776526666 |
Zusammenfassung: | 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 murdered his wife by slashing her throat. Profoundly shaken by the execution and the crime that preceded it, Wilde composed this elegiac poem centered on the haunting refrain, "Yet each man kills the thing he loves.". |
Format: | E-Book |
Quelle: | PDA eBooks EBL Schweitzer |
Sprache: | Englisch |