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- ISBN: 9780679783213 | 0679783210
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/12/2000
Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas,De Profundisexplodes 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 Profundisis a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann callsDe Profundis"a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes.