With an Introduction & Notes by Anne Varty Royal Holloway University of London De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent & bitter reproach from prison to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving & characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life which was published anonymously in 1898 This collection also
Includes:: the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism & two of his Platonic dialogues The Decay of Lying & The Critic as Artist