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De Profundis

by Oscar Wilde

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First published: 1905
Pages: 49

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Written from a prison cell in 1897, this long letter began as a private reckoning addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas, the younger lover whose recklessness helped drag Oscar Wilde to ruin. Wilde revisits the affair, the lawsuits, and the vanity that led to his conviction for gross indecency, but the letter keeps widening into something larger: a meditation on suffering, humility, art, and the figure of Christ as a supreme artist of compassion. The old wit survives, though chastened, and the prose swings between bitterness and a hard-won tenderness. It stands among the most moving self-examinations in the language.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s.