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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde

Publisher: Sovereign

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol was written in exile in France. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole, highlighting the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share.
Available since: 01/15/2016.

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