We are also giving service of printing the hard-to-find books which are not listed in our store. Our dedicated team is trying to bring these rare books back to the shelves. This is an important book for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure. We hope that you understand these issues in these old treasure. We give our best to give you the best book but in some cases we have to adjust few pages which are blur or missing or black spots. As these are old books, we processed each page manually on computer and make them readable. If this title is a multivolume set, this is a single volume, Black & white printing on high quality natural shade paper with sewing binding for longer life, professionally processed without changing its contents. Original edition was published in and this unique edition is Reprinted in 2013 with the help of original edition. We have multiple options in color of leather Red, Green, Blue, Black and with Black labels. An Original Leather is being used for binding this book with Golden Leaf Printing and designing on Spine, front and Back of the book with edge gilding. 43 A Unique Leather Bound book for elite readers/collectors of old rare books. was actually Wilde.Premium Leather Bound. It was not commonly known, until the 7th printing in June 1899, that C.3.3. This ensured that Wilde's name – by then notorious – did not appear on the poem's front cover. The finished poem was published by Leonard Smithers in 1898 under the name C.3.3., which stood for cell block C, landing 3, cell 3. This had a profound effect on Wilde, inspiring the line 'Yet each man kills the thing he loves.' He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. 1866 – 7 July 1896) had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.ĭuring his imprisonment, on Saturday 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about.

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