by Oscar Wilde · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788490324820
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«De profundis and Other Prison Writings» is an anthology of writings by Oscar Wilde, published by Debolsillo in paperback (328 pages).
In 1895 Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. In prison he wrote «De profundis», a confessional epistle about his inner journey. The volume includes letters to his close associates, such as Lord Alfred Douglas, and closes with «The Ballad of Reading Gaol», a poem inspired by a prisoner condemned to the gallows.
2013 paperback edition, in the Debolsillo Clásica collection. Includes an introduction by Colm Tóibín.
For readers interested in epistolary literature and the intimate side of Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
