num_pages: 108
description: De Profundis ( "from the depths") is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to "Bosie" (Lord Alfred Douglas). De Profundis does not resemble any of the other works that made Wilde famous; and it's a work that often seems to make critics uncomfortable. Perhaps justly in the end it's a response to Wilde's imprisonment for homosexuality. In our modern context, that makes the work easy to look away from -- but it also speaks to things that concern and disturb many people, even today.
language: English
title: De Profundis
titlecomplete: De Profundis
genres: Biography, Philosophy, LGBT, Queer, Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Classics, 19th Century
ratings_count: 19026
publisher: Aegypan