Of Profundis - Ballad of the Jail of Reading - Col. Each Author's Masterpiece
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Publisher: Martin Claret
Category: Foreign literature / Romance
Sinopese
Wilde assumed the attitude of a dândi at the beginning. Its talent overcame however that superficial phase, to flourish with rare beauty in unforgettable work-cousins. ´De Profundis´ is the text writing in the prison, when it was condemned under the homosexuality accusation after the scandalous case in that wrapped up with Lord Alfred Douglas. It is a long letter of recriminations its former-lover and it causes of all its misfortune. In that document Wilde explains its conduct without trying to defend it. He makes part of this volume celebrated Balada of the Jail of Reading, considered its best poem. On this text André Gide wrote: ´A Balada is a humble and rebellious lamentation, at the same time, and of an admirable cadence
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I read this book in English six months ago, and I liked it to much.
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