de Profundis - Paperback - 9780679783213

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.

• | Author: Oscar Wilde
• | Publisher: Modern Library
• | Publication Date: Sep 12, 2000
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0679783210
• | ISBN-13: 9780679783213