Tell your friends about this item:
De Profundis Oscar Wilde
Christmas presents can be returned until 31 January
Also available as:
- Paperback Book (2020) R 205
- Paperback Book (2019) R 207
-
Paperback BookGerman edition(2012) R 207
- Paperback Book (2018) R 229
- Paperback Book (2026) R 234
- Paperback Book (2015) R 234
- Paperback Book (2016) R 244
- Paperback Book (2011) R 244
- Paperback Book (2016) R 252
- Paperback Book (2017) R 262
- Paperback Book (2017) R 262
- Paperback Book (2015) R 264
- Paperback Book (2015) R 264
- Paperback Book (2016) R 284
- Paperback Book (2006) R 307
- Paperback Book (2020) R 311
- Paperback Book (2017) R 317
- Paperback Book (2015) R 333
- Paperback Book (2016) R 343
- Paperback Book (2007) R 359
- Paperback Book (2020) R 386
- Hardcover Book (2020) R 412
- Book (2022) R 431
- Hardcover Book (2020) R 447
- Hardcover Book (2006) R 475
De Profundis
Oscar Wilde
While I was in Wandsworth prison I longed to die. It was my one desire. When after two months in the infirmary I was transferred here, and found myself growing gradually better in physical health, I was filled with rage. I determined to commit suicide on the very day on which I left prison. After a time that evil mood passed away, and I made up my mind to live, but to wear gloom as a king wears purple: never to smile again: to turn whatever house I entered into a house of mourning: to make my friends walk slowly in sadness with me: to teach them that melancholy is the true secret of life: to maim them with an alien sorrow: to mar them with my own pain. Now I feel quite differently. I see it would be both ungrateful and unkind of me to pull so long a face that when my friends came to see me they would have to make their faces still longer in order to show their sympathy; or, if I desired to entertain them, to invite them to sit down silently to bitter herbs and funeral baked meats. I must learn how to be cheerful and happy.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 27, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9798598144626 |
| Pages | 38 |
| Dimensions | 127 × 203 × 2 mm · 49 g |
| Language | English |