Detailed view for the Book: De Profundis

Title:

De Profundis
 

Authors:

Genres:

Autobiography/ Memoirs
Historical

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1905-00-00  

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Blurb: 
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.