De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Others - Wordsworth Classics Book cover type:Paperback ISBN: 9798886633399

ISBN: 9798886633399

Sharp as his focus may be

that cat turns out to be a god-like being who offers him a second chance in another world

it is a story which she intended would ‘curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart

though this has happened to me

De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Others - Wordsworth Classics Book cover type:Paperback ISBN: 9798886633399With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and 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 and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This