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De Profundis

By Douglas , Oscar , Alfred Bruce;Wilde

Book information

Publisher
Dover Publications;Modern Library
ISBN
9780307757180, 9780486293080, 0307757188
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1921480 bytes)
Series
Modern Library classics
Edition
Modern Library pbk. ed
Pages
135 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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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 letter ... One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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