De Profundis

Oscar Wilde’s long prison letter turns suffering, memory, vanity, love, humiliation, and spiritual reckoning into one of the most searching autobiographical works in English.

At a glance De Profundis is Oscar Wilde’s extraordinary letter from prison: an extended act of… Addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas but reaching far beyond private grievance, it becomes a… Themes The book explores suffering, remorse, vanity, aestheticism, love, betrayal… Wilde does not write with simple serenity; the power of the text lies in the tension…

The book explores suffering, remorse, vanity, aestheticism, love, betrayal, religion, and the possibility of inward transformation.