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An account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'. It also includes further letters to his wife, his friends, the Home Secretary, himself, as well as "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", the poem about a man sentenced to hang for the murder of woman he loved.

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De Profundis and Other Prison Writings

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 3 January 2013
      ISBN-13 9780140439908
      978-0140439908
      ISBN-10 0140439900
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      Biography Essays Books by Oscar Wilde

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'. It also includes further letters to his wife, his friends, the Home Secretary, himself, as well as "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", the poem about a man sentenced to hang for the murder of woman he loved.

      Trade Review
      'De Profundis' remains Wilde's greatest piece of prose-writing -- Colm Tóibín

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