By C. 3. 3
[OSCAR WILDE]
A poem of more than 600 lines, dedicated to the memory of a trooper of the Horse Guards who was hanged in Reading Gaol during the poet's confinement there. An English classic.
Cloth, One Dollar; Paper, Ten Cents
The cloth edition has covers of blue and vellum, and is beautifully printed from large type on hand-made antique deckle-edge paper. It is a sumptuous book of 96 pages, and should be in every library.
PRESS COMMENTS
Albany Press.—"Strong writing, almost too strong; it is horrible, gruesome, uncanny, and yet most fascinating and highly ethical.... One of the greatest poems of the century, a permanent addition to English literature.... It is the best Lenten and Easter sermon of the year."
Brooklyn Citizen.—"Many of the stanzas are cries out of the lowest hell. The poem, indeed, takes rank with the most extraordinary psychological phenomena of this or any time."
Indianapolis Journal.—"The work is one of singular power, holding the reader fascinated to the last line. Nothing approaching it in strength has been produced in recent years."
Philadelphia Conservator.—"People who imagine themselves superior to the prisoners in jails should read this poem. People who love invasive laws should read this poem. People who think existing governmental methods of meeting social invasion civilized should read this poem. People who do not know that laws may make as well as punish crime should read this poem. In fact, everybody should read this poem. For somewhere it touches everybody, accuses everybody, appeals to everybody."