In 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labor as punishment for having engaged in homosexual acts. While serving out his sentence at Reading Gaol in Berkshire, Wilde witnessed the execution by hanging of a young soldier who had murdered his wife by slashing her throat. Profoundly shaken by the execution and the crime that preceded it, Wilde composed this elegiac poem centered on the haunting refrain, "Yet each man kills the thing he loves."
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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 58 ● ISBN 9781776526666 ● Maison d’édition The Floating Press ● Publié 2013 ● Téléchargeable 3 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6681272 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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