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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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A hundred and nine stanzas, the ballad of a man who murdered the woman he loved and is inconsolable till the day he is hanged.

Written after Wilde's release from Reading Gaol where he had been incarcerated after being convicted of homosexual offences.

Published by The Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY (1905). Covers wrecked; pages in good order.

6.25 in x 8.25 in

 

Item Code: 3401

£ 25

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