- Paperback: 248 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (18 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192839616
- ISBN-13: 978-0192839619
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.9 x 1.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,518,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`All limitations, external or internal, are prison-walls, and life is a limitation.' Presenting the less familiar, serious Wilde before and after his fall, this volume includes The Soul of Man, a manifesto on Individualism, De Profundis, the self-analysing piece he wrote in gaol, two open letters to the Daily Chronicle on prison injustice, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, inspired by the execution of a fellow-prisoner.
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MR. WILDE NEEDS BE READ NOW MORE THAN EVER
3 Aug 2006
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ThIs excellent collection of Irishman Mr. Wilde's most serious writings includes:
Soul of Man under Socialism - an interesting call for individualism of spirit under economic socialism, a resolution of his feelings for the Fabians
De Profundis- A letter to Bosie, a homnosexual young man whose father the powerful Marquess of Queensbury, had Wilde, previously a noted and dedicated family man who adored his children, imprisoned brutally on false charges. Reading Wilde's feelings of losing his children alone, for whom he wrote wonderful famous bedtime stories, wrenches the heart and gives a chance to grieve to half at least the fathers in America who have lost our children to unjust judicial action.
Letters from prison to newspapers
The Ballad of Reading Gaol- a great poem of life and death imprisoned, including how children are brutalized and all hope lost, a lesson for our current inhuman policy on Guantanamo where we imprison cruelly and torture innocent children not accused of any crime. Read tis peom aloud as you walk and you will see.
Not five years later Wilde died a broken man, the greatest of our Irish writers of his generation, in whose very popular plays exposed the profound corruption and petty cruelties of the English ruling class. He was through Bosie investigating for later dramatization the sexual perversity of the aristocracy, but was imprisoned lest he write his keen perceptions of those who brought so much suffering to the world and indulged their lives of hypocritical luxury
Fine reading. Food for thought. Healing for the heart under oppression.
Soul of Man under Socialism - an interesting call for individualism of spirit under economic socialism, a resolution of his feelings for the Fabians
De Profundis- A letter to Bosie, a homnosexual young man whose father the powerful Marquess of Queensbury, had Wilde, previously a noted and dedicated family man who adored his children, imprisoned brutally on false charges. Reading Wilde's feelings of losing his children alone, for whom he wrote wonderful famous bedtime stories, wrenches the heart and gives a chance to grieve to half at least the fathers in America who have lost our children to unjust judicial action.
Letters from prison to newspapers
The Ballad of Reading Gaol- a great poem of life and death imprisoned, including how children are brutalized and all hope lost, a lesson for our current inhuman policy on Guantanamo where we imprison cruelly and torture innocent children not accused of any crime. Read tis peom aloud as you walk and you will see.
Not five years later Wilde died a broken man, the greatest of our Irish writers of his generation, in whose very popular plays exposed the profound corruption and petty cruelties of the English ruling class. He was through Bosie investigating for later dramatization the sexual perversity of the aristocracy, but was imprisoned lest he write his keen perceptions of those who brought so much suffering to the world and indulged their lives of hypocritical luxury
Fine reading. Food for thought. Healing for the heart under oppression.
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