Description

Written from Wildes 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 Douglass behavior, a mournful elegy for Wildes 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 letterOne of the greatest, and the longest, ever written.

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes.

Author: Oscar Wilde
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 09/12/2000
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.22w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780679783213
Language: English