{"product_id":"de-profundis-paperback-30","title":"de Profundis - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOscar Wilde\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Ellmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, \u003ci\u003eDe Profundis\u003c\/i\u003e explodes 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, \u003ci\u003eDe Profundis\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls \u003ci\u003eDe Profundis\u003c\/i\u003e \"a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, \"De Profundis explodes 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 Profundis is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls \"De Profundis \"a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOscar Wilde\u003c\/b\u003e (1854-1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright. His novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e, brought him lasting recognition, and he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era with a series of witty social satires, including his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Being Earnest\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Ellmann\u003c\/b\u003e, during a long and distinguished career, won international recognition as a scholar, teacher of English literature, critic, and biographer. His magisterial life of James Joyce has been widely acclaimed as the greatest literary biography of the century. Ellmann was born in Highland Park, Michigan, in 1918. He studied at Yale and at Trinity College in Dublin. He taught at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, Emory, the University of Chicago, Indiana University, and Oxford, where he was Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College. His \u003ci\u003eJames Joyce\u003c\/i\u003e (National Book Award, 1959) was preceded by \u003ci\u003eYeats: The Man and the Masks \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Identity of Yeats\u003c\/i\u003e, and was followed by--among other greatly praised books--two volumes of Joyce letters, \u003ci\u003eEminent Domain\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFour Dubliners\u003c\/i\u003e. Ellmann died in May 1987, in Oxford, soon after completing \u003ci\u003eOscar Wilde\u003c\/i\u003e, to which he had devoted some two decades of study, research, and writing.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 7.98 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47331297329401,"sku":"9780679783213","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/bW45WFVQR3M0ZFltQUdEUjJMd1MrUT09_4b1e916e-b13e-44d5-ba72-c3562a056f2e.webp?v=1769611649","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/de-profundis-paperback-30","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}