De Profundis - Softcover

Wilde, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1978106955 ISBN 13: 9781978106956

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

De Profundis is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to his lover Bosie where he recounts their previous relationship and extravagant lifestyle which eventually led to Wilde's conviction and imprisonment for gross indecency and charts his spiritual development in prison.

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About the Author

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1978106955
• ISBN 13: 9781978106956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44