De Profundis (eBook) by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde’s legendary prison letter, written during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol in 1897. De Profundis is a powerful meditation on suffering, love, art, disgrace, spirituality, and queer identity, revealing a deeply personal side of Wilde rarely seen in his more famous comedies and novels. A landmark work of LGBTQ+ literary history.
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De Profundis by Oscar Wilde is one of the most intimate, devastating, and philosophically rich works in modern literature. Written during Wilde’s imprisonment in Reading Gaol between January and March of 1897, this extraordinary long-form letter was addressed to his former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and became both a confession and a meditation on suffering, art, love, humiliation, spirituality, and self-discovery.
Far removed from the sparkling wit of The Importance of Being Earnest or the decadent glamour of The Picture of Dorian Gray, De Profundis reveals Wilde stripped of society, reputation, and comfort. What remains is startlingly human: a voice moving through grief, rage, regret, tenderness, and finally toward a fragile kind of transcendence. Within the prison walls, Wilde reflects on the scandal that destroyed his career, the pain of separation from his children, the cruelty of public disgrace, and his growing identification with Christ as the supreme romantic individualist and artist of sorrow.
The result is not merely a prison letter, but a towering literary work. Wilde’s prose glows with poetic intensity, turning despair into art with sentences that still feel electric more than a century later. Themes of queer love, public shame, artistic identity, and emotional survival give De Profundis extraordinary relevance for modern readers, particularly LGBTQ+ audiences reclaiming Wilde not just as a literary icon, but as a deeply vulnerable and courageous voice.
This digital edition presents the complete text in a clean, readable format, accompanied by a dramatic custom cover designed in the dark, moody style of late Victorian gothic elegance. The atmosphere is all candle smoke, iron bars, ink stains, and wounded brilliance… like a velvet curtain hanging in a prison chapel.
A foundational work of queer literary history and one of the greatest prison writings ever composed.
eBook Details:
- Title: De Profundis
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Format: Digital eBook (EPUB + PDF)
- Genre: Literary Classics, LGBTQ+ History, Philosophy, Memoir, Queer Literature
- Language: English
- Includes custom cover artwork created for Booklyn.xyz / Queerazon.com
- Public Domain Text
This eBook is available in two formats for your convenience: EPUB (for Kindle, Apple Books, and most e-readers) and PDF (for computers and printable reading).
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