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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Wilde, Oscar; Ellmann, Richard
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| Publisher: |
Modern Library
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| Date: |
9/12/2000
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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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