The Ballad of Reading Gaol
by Oscar Wilde
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One of several unauthorized printings of the 7th ed. Cf. Mason, S. Wilde, p. 423-424 and 531-532.
In one printing, the author's name is absent from the spine and the type used for the "3" in "C.3.3" on the t.p. is rounded, with the base of the "3" level with the base of the "C". In another printing, a different type is used throughout, the author's name appears on the spine and the type used for the "3" on the t.p. is elongated with its base extending below the base of the "C."
HRC has copies of both printings described.
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Fiction, general, English poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Classic Literature, Fiction, Prisoners, Poetry, Prisons, ImprisonmentPeople
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Times
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Octavo. Pp. viii+31. Printed on one side of leaf throughout.
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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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