NMLP P-038543 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde (published as 'C.3.3.') · Leonard Smithers, London · 1898

Published 13 February 1898 over the pseudonym 'C.3.3.' — Wilde's cell designation, the third cell on the third landing of Gallery C — with the author's name nowhere in the book

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038543 for "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde (published as 'C.3.3.') (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038543, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).