De Profundis by Oscar Wilde Fiction Literary Classics Literary Collections

<p><strong>De Profundis (Latin: from the depths) is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol to Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas).</strong></p><p>De Profundis does not resemble any of the other works that made Wilde famous; and it's a work that often seems to make critics uncomfortable. Perhaps justly so: in the end it's a response to Wilde's imprisonment for homosexuality. In our modern context that makes the work easy to look away from -- but it also speaks to things that concern and disturb many people even today.</p>