You can improve your facilities of fast reading with Christmas Speed reading is not magic. You needn't practice special exercises; it is just enough to read. Common returns to what is already read, that usually decrease the speed of reading, become impossible.
Somewhat confusingly, The Christmas Ballad of Reading Gaol is not the work that Wilde wrote while imprisoned for moral (in his case, homosexual) offences in 1895. That work was De Profundis, published five years after his death, in 1905. The Christmas Ballad of Reading Gaol was written after his release and in France, in 1897, though it was published in 1898.
