De Profundis

Name: De Profundis
Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781911144816

Author: Oscar Wilde
Series: Timeless Classics
Language: English
Length: 58 pages
ISBN: 9781911144816
Published: 15 December 2015
Imprint: Sovereign

Oscar Wilde
De Profundis
memoir
biography
art
aesthetics
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Description

De Profundis is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment. In the letter Wilde considers events leading to his conviction and discusses his spiritual development in prison and identification with Jesus Christ, whom he characterises as a romantic, individualist artist.

Author

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin, took a double first at Magdalen College, Oxford, and made conversation a form of literature. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the one novel — beauty, bargain, and a portrait that keeps the score. The Importance of Being Earnest is the comedy in which nothing is earnest except the jokes. Prison and exile followed the trials. Style was an ethic. Scandal became a second plot.

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