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Pit of shame : the real ballad of Reading Gaol /
Pit of Shame is an unique account of the life and times of one of the UK's most famous prisons - a fame that flows directly from an account of the execution of Trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge (CTW) as written by Reading Gaol's best-known prisoner, C.3.3, the pseudonym of Oscar Wilde. Wil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Winchester [England] :
Waterside Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Acknowledgements
- A Note from Reading's Governing Governor
- About the author
- CONTENTS
- List of illustrations
- Foreword Theodore Dalrymple
- Preface
- Timeline
- 1 The Old Reading Gaols
- 2 The New Prison
- 3 Punishments of Former Times
- 4 Executions
- 5 Prisoner C.3.3 Oscar Wilde
- 6 The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- 7 The Easter Rising and Internment
- 8 Invisible Prisoners
- 9 A Pioneering Borstal Correctional Centre
- 10 Starting Again with a Clean Sheet
- 11 Life as a Local Prison
- 12 HM Remand Centre and Young Offender Institution13 'Reading Gaol' Today and in the Future
- Appendix 1: Arrested Development by Theodore Dalrymple
- Appendix 2: Rules for Prisoners (c.1850)
- Appendix 3: Prison Dietary Scales (c.1850)
- Appendix 4: List of Executions
- Prilllary Sources, Internet Sites and Select Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover