# The Ballad of Reading Gaol

**Author(s):** Oscar Wilde
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**Genres:** literary-classics, literary-fiction, poetry
**Pages:** 205
**Publisher:** Quiet Vision Pub
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 1997 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781576469811
**ISBN-10:** 1576469816
**ASIN:** B000VB1R78
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > United States
**Amazon binding:** $75.00
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## Description

*The Ballad of Reading Gaol* is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from HM Prison Reading on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.

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