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Written from Wildes prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover LordAlfred Douglas De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional loveletter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglass behavior a mournful elegyfor Wildes own lost greatness and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. Atonce a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditationon human suffering De Profundis is a classic of gay literature. RichardEllmann calls De Profundis a love letter...One of the greatest and thelongest ever written.This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissionednotes. «
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