DE PROFUNDIS

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From the shadows of cell 3. 3. 3 in Reading Prison, Oscar Wilde delivers his spiritual testament. An intimate letter that was never meant to be read by anyone else, where the brill iance of London's most famous dandy fades away to give way to a raw and authentic voice. De Profundis is the heart-rending cry of a man who had everything and lost it in an instant. The journey from the heights of glory to the hell of ostracism. In these pages, Wilde mercilessly dissects the love that destroyed him, confronts his demons and, paradoxically, finds a new form of freedom in confinement. Can suffering transform a man? Is it possible to be reborn after the fall? This masterful work, as painful as it is luminous, is the definitive answer from the Irish genius before he vanished forever. Show more