Name: de profundis
SKU: 23800648
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Author: Oscar Wilde

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Oscar Wilde

Illustrated by

Robert Ross

Publisher

Kessinger Publishing

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

172

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.4 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN

1163207128

ISBN13

9781163207123

Synopsis "de profundis"

1911. Wilde, Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Wintermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. De Profundis was written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas. It 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. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most prominent playwrights of late Victorian London. Additionally, he was a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, his short stories, his plays, his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his premature death.

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