Ebook {Epub PDF} De Profundis and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde

 · Bankrupt and with his reputation in ruins, Oscar Wilde wrote the astonishing letter “De Profundis” to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while in prison. Editor Colm Toibin, the acclaimed author of The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, and Brooklyn, describes it /5(). 8 rows ·  · De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters. The title piece, “De Profundis,” is a long letter Wilde wrote to his (ex?) friend/lover Lord Alfred Douglas (“Bosie”) during his imprisonment for “gross indecency.” An account of their relationship and its ending in which Wilde accuses Douglas of being shallow and uncaring and himself for allowing Douglas to consume so much of his time and money, it also “The supreme vice is shallowness/5.

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Bankrupt and with his reputation in ruins, Oscar Wilde wrote the astonishing letter “De Profundis” to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while in prison. Editor Colm Toibin, the acclaimed author of The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, and Brooklyn, describes it as Wilde’s “greatest piece of prose writing.” Also included is “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” Wilde’s most famous poem and one of the greatest ballads in the English language, as well as other letters Wilde wrote from. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.”. ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis and Other Writings. 19 likes. Like. “The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. Oscar Wilde. · Rating details · ratings · 45 reviews. De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín. At the start of , Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage success, An Ideal Husband. But by May of the same year, Wilde was in Reading prison sentenced to hard labour.