Oscar Wilde

de Profundis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An impassioned letter from Oscar Wilde to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. De Profundis is a revealing piece composed during the author's confinement at Reading Gaol, an English prison. The letter was written towards the end of Wilde's term in early 1897 and published in 1905 after his untimely death.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 42
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888973905
• Artikelnr.: 68581031

Autorenporträt

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a Dublin-born poet and playwright who studied at the Portora Royal School, before attending Trinity College and Magdalen College, Oxford. The son of two writers, Wilde grew up in an intellectual environment. As a young man, his poetry appeared in various periodicals including Dublin University Magazine. In 1881, he published his first book Poems, an expansive collection of his earlier works. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was released in 1890 followed by the acclaimed plays Lady Windermere's Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).