Series:

Biblioteca Clasicos Bilingue

2 primary works • 6 total works

Book 28

Cover of La decadencia de la mentira/The decay of lie

Book 32

Cover of La verdad sobre las máscaras/The truth of masks

Cover of de Profundis

de Profundis

by Oscar Wilde

Published 2 December 1905
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 behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde's own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, De Profundis is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls De Profundis "a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written."


This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes.

Cover of Pluma, lápiz y veneno/Pen, pencil and poison

Cover of El príncipe feliz/The happy prince

Cover of El modelo millonario/The model millionaire