# De Profundis

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- Book: [De Profundis](https://www.bookquiver.com/oscar-wilde/de-profundis) ([De Profundis.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/oscar-wilde/de-profundis.md))
- Authors: [Oscar Wilde](https://www.bookquiver.com/oscar-wilde), [Richard Ellmann](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-ellmann)
- Publisher: Modern Library
- ISBN: 978-06-7978-321-3
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2000-09-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas's...