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De Profundis : Modern Library Classics - Oscar Wilde
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De Profundis

By: Oscar Wilde

Paperback | 12 September 2000 | Edition Number 1

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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.
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"Displays the insight, honesty, and unself-conscious style of a great writer." --W. H. Auden

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