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De Profundis
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De Profundis
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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.
is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellman calls
"a love letter. . . One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written.
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes.
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.
is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellman calls
"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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