Description
Written from Wilde’s prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas’s behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde’s own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, De Profundis is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls De Profundis “a love of the greatest, and the longest, ever written.” This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 9/12/2000
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31 lbs
Size: 7.98″ H x 5.22″ L x 0.47″ W
ISBN: 9780679783213
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