Ballad of Reading Gaol

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
by
Oscar Wilde
July, 1995 [Etext #301]
In Memoriam?C.T.W.?Sometime Trooper of the Royal Horse Guards.?Obiit H.M. Prison, Reading, Berkshire,?July 7th, 1896?Presented by Project Gutenberg on the 99th Anniversary.
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