De Profundis And Other Prison Writings


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De Profundis And Other Prison Writings


De Profundis And Other Prison Writings
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-01-03

De Profundis And Other Prison Writings written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-03 with Literary Collections categories.


De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage success, An Ideal Husband. But by May of the same year, Wilde was in Reading prison sentenced to hard labour. 'De Profundis' is an epistolic account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'. This edition also includes further letters to his wife, his friends, the Home Secretary, newspaper editors and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas - Bosie - himself, as well as 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', the heart-rending poem about a man sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. This Penguin edition is based on the definitive Complete Letters, edited by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland. Colm Tóibín's introduction explores Wilde's duality in love, politics and literature. This edition also includes notes on the text and suggested further reading. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin. His three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and A House of Pomegranates, together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, won him a reputation as a writer with an original talent, a reputation enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, and a collection of stories, Mothers and Sons. His essay collection Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar appeared in 2002. He is the editor of The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction.



De Profundis


De Profundis
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Release Date : 1999

De Profundis written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by Wordsworth Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.


Contains De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Soul of Man under Socialism, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.



De Profundis


De Profundis
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2011-12-08

De Profundis written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-08 with Literary Collections categories.


Oscar Wilde's letter to Lord Alfred Douglas written during the writer's two-year prison term



De Profundis And Other Writings


De Profundis And Other Writings
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954

De Profundis And Other Writings written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with categories.


A collection of essays and poems and the letter to Lord Alfred Douglas written from prison.



The Soul Of Man And Prison Writings


The Soul Of Man And Prison Writings
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1999

The Soul Of Man And Prison Writings written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Collections categories.


'All limitations, external or internal, are prison-walls, and life is a limitation.' Presenting the less familiar, serious Wilde before and after his fall, this volume includes The Soul of Man, a manifesto on Individualism, De Profundis, the self-analysing piece he wrote in gaol, two open letters to the Daily Chronicle on prison injustice, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, inspiredby the execution of a fellow-prisoner.



The Picture Of Dorian Gray And Other Writings


The Picture Of Dorian Gray And Other Writings
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-05

The Picture Of Dorian Gray And Other Writings written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05 with Fiction categories.


A selection of the author's work is enhanced by an introduction, a chronology of the author's life and work, a timeline of significant events, discussion questions, critical analysis, and explanatory notes.



The Annotated Prison Writings Of Oscar Wilde


The Annotated Prison Writings Of Oscar Wilde
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

The Annotated Prison Writings Of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Prisoners' writings categories.


Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A savage indictment of society, and testimony to private sufferings, his prison writings--illuminated by Nicholas Frankel's notes--reveal a different man from the dandy and aesthete who shocked or amused the English-speaking world.



De Profundis Annotated Edition


De Profundis Annotated Edition
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-23

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The eighty-page manuscript of this letter rests in the British Museum. It was written in Reading Gaol on prison paper during the last months, from January to March, of Oscar Wilde's two-year sentence for "unnatural practices," or homosexuality. It was addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas, but when Wilde was not allowed to send it from prison he handed it to his friend Robert Ross the day after he was released on May 19, 1897, with instructions to type a copy and send the original to Lord Alfred, who always claimed he never received it. Part of the work was first published under Ross's title, De Profundis, in 1905 and again in 1908. A typescript was given by Ross to Vyvyn Holland, Wilde's younger son, who published it in 1949. Rupert Hart-Davis demonstrated that this first complete edition contained hundreds of errors, and he published the manuscript after it was released by the British Museum from the fifty-year restriction Ross placed on it when he deposited the manuscript in 1909. As a letter, it becomes the center of the definitive edition of Wilde's letters; in the shorter form edited by Ross it is both an apologia and a literary essay. Nevertheless, in its entirety it has a unity and a unique value as Wilde's testament to his life as an artist.Since it is cast in the form of an epistle, the work needs some contextual reference to Wilde's life and works before and after his imprisonment and the composition of the letter. The prison sentence marked the end of his marriage, his income, and his life in England; thereafter he lived in exile as Sebastian Melmoth. One link with the past, however, was not broken: the association with Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde's return to the young man, the cause of his imprisonment, divorce, and bankruptcy, and to the kind of associates whose evidence had convicted him, seems to invalidate the promise to lead a new life with which De Profundis closes. Wilde claimed, however, that while, on one hand, the conditions of exile, disgrace, and penury drove him to those acquaintances, on the other, they were the creations of his art and not the conditions of his life. Wilde's one conviction was that he was an artist, and he doggedly transposed the terms of life and art. His term for the new life was Dante's La vita nuova (c. 1292). Similarly, Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) was to be the parable of his life; it was more true to his life because of its artistry than was his biography. The strain of maintaining this paradox ended his life three years after his release and finished his writing career shortly after the composition of De Profundis. The resolution of the paradox is the intention of the long letter.This epistle is therefore connected both with Wilde's biography (in which sense it is autobiography) and with his literary canon. In the letter, he suggests that his sentence and fate are "prefigured" in works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray. The immediate artistic fruits of the "new life" are the two letters to the Morning Chronicle and The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), his only writing after De Profundis; parts of the last amount to a prose poem falling somewhere between the prose of the two letters and poetry of the ballad, Wilde's longest and most effective poem. The two letters are included in Ross's 1908 edition and show plainly the real conditions under which De Profundis was written. Wilde sums them up as constant hunger, diarrhea from the rotten food, and insomnia from the diarrhea and the plank bed in his cell. His description of prison life is vivid and awful; out of his experience, immediately after his release, he showed courage in writing letters to defend a discharged warder and to plead for decent treatment of child prisoners. Perhaps he could have played a prominent role in prison reform had not exile intervened; yet it is difficult to see Wilde in that role unless he really meant what he said in De Profundis. As it was, events showed...



De Profundis The Ballad Of Reading Gaol


De Profundis The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
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Author : Wilde O.
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
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De Profundis The Ballad Of Reading Gaol written by Wilde O. and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.


Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most brillilant and controversial social and literary ?gures of all time. Wilde’s prison writings include his most celebrated essay "De Profundis", written to Lord Alfred Douglas, and his legendary epic poem "The Ballad Of Reading Gaol".



De Profundis


De Profundis
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date : 2010-06-30

De Profundis written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by Modern Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-30 with Social Science categories.


Written 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." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes.