De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Others (Wordsworth Classics)

Wilde, Oscar

ISBN 10: 1840224010 / ISBN 13: 9781840224016

Edité par Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999

A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR004603908

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De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Others (Wordsworth Classics)

Présentation de l'éditeur:

This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.

De Profundis is Oscar Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (‘Bosie’). In an extended letter Wilde accuses Lord Alfred of selfishness, shallowness, parasitism, greed, extravagance, tantrums, pettiness and neglect. He contrasts this behaviour towards him with the selfless devotion of his close friend, Robert Ross (‘Robbie’) who became Wilde's literary executor, gave the work its title (from the opening of Psalm 130) and who published a shortened version of it in 1905.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life. It was published anonymously in 1898, signed only ‘C.3.3.’ Wilde's cell number in Reading Gaol. Wilde himself, released from his two-year prison sentence in 1897, was at the time living in France on the charity of friends and under the pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth.

This collection also includes the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism, Wilde's most outspoken defence of anarchy, and two of his Platonic dialogues, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist in which he puts forward his provocatively witty ideas about art and the social role of the artist.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & ...
Éditeur : Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Fair