Description: Further DetailsTitle: De Profundis and Other Prison WritingsCondition: NewEAN: 9780140439908ISBN: 9780140439908Publisher: Penguin ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/03/2013Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 17mmItem Weight: 224gAuthor: Oscar WildeLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0140439900Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBContributor: Colm Tóibín (Edited by)Genre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
Title: De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
EAN: 9780140439908
ISBN: 9780140439908
Release Date: 01/03/2013
Release Year: 2013
ISBN-10: 0140439900
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Colm Tóibín (Edited by)
Book Title: De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2013
Topic: Letters, Essays, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Features: Revised
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 8.1 Oz
Item Length: 7.8 in
Author: Oscar. Wilde
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
