Bibliograph

De profundis, and other prison writings /, Oscar Wilde ; edited, and with an introduction, by Colm Tóibín

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De profundis, and other prison writings /, Oscar Wilde ; edited, and with an introduction, by Colm Tóibín

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page xxxiii)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

mixed forms

Main title

De profundis

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1844235328

Responsibility statement

Oscar Wilde ; edited, and with an introduction, by Colm Tóibín

Series statement

Penguin classics

Sub title

and other prison writings /

Summary

"'De Profundis' is an epistolic account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his conversion from his previous belief in pleasure and decadence to his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness.' The book also includes further letters to his wife, his friends, the Home Secretary and newspaper editors, as well as many to his lover Lord Alfred Dougas - Bosie - himself. 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison and originally published anonymously, is the heart-rendering and eye-opening tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang fo the murder of the woman he loved."--Back cover

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De profundis and other prison writings

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