Name: Mod lib de Profundis (Modern Library)
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Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780679783213

portada Mod lib de Profundis (Modern Library)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oscar Wilde

Preface by

Richard Ellmann

Publisher

Modern Library

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.3 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN

0679783210

ISBN13

9780679783213

Edition No.

2000

Synopsis "Mod lib de Profundis (Modern Library) "

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.

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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