"reading" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Reading's best known literary connection is with Oscar Wilde, who was imprisoned in Reading Gaol from 1895 to 1897.
- The epitaph is a verse from The Ballad of Reading Gaol:
- Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in Reading Gaol after his court case.
- The minute he went to prison he wrote one overtly sentimental work, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol."
- It is based on the life of Oscar Wilde "looking back from his time imprisoned in Reading Gaol."
- The text for this scene is taken from Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
- John Carter was sentenced to death and hanged at Reading Gaol on 3 December 1893.
- Nor is his stay in Reading Gaol, where the row of prisoners on a treadmill suggests a most unpleasant health club, rendered with great poignancy.
- There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a long poem commemorating prison life.
- Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in Reading Gaol from 1895-97.
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