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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 Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 03/01/2013
    ISBN13: 9780140439908, 978-0140439908
    ISBN10: 0140439900
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    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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