- Publisher: Wordsworth
- Year: 2002
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 318pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 196x126mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781840224016
- Product code: 540564
De Profundis
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Oscar Wilde’s impassioned ‘De Profundis’ describes the joy and despair of love but also reveals his views on art, Christianity and incarceration. It features here with his account of prison life, ‘The Decay of Lying’, ‘The Critic as Artist’ and ‘The Soul of Man under Socialism’.
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With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.
De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898.
This collection also includes the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism and two of his Platonic dialogues, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.
De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898.
This collection also includes the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism and two of his Platonic dialogues, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.
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Oscar Wilde’s impassioned ‘De Profundis’ describes the joy and despair of love but also reveals his views on art, Christianity and incarceration. It features here with his account of prison life, ‘The Decay of Lying’, ‘The Critic as Artist’ and ‘The Soul of Man under Socialism’.
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Intro. Anne Varty, Oscar Wilde
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196x126mm
Wordsworth
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