De profundis ; and other prison writings
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (page xxx-xxxiii).

"'De Profundis' is an epistolic account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his conversion from his previous belief in pleasure and decadence to his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness.' The book also includes further letters to his wife, his friends, the Home Secretary and newspaper editors, as well as many to his lover Lord Alfred Dougas - Bosie - himself. 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison and originally published anonymously, is the heart-rendering and eye-opening tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang foR the murder of the woman he loved." -- Back cover.