About this title: The famous letter Oscar Wilde sent from Reading Gaol, describing the events that led to his arrest and imprisonment. Wilde, one of the most famous men of his day as a result of his literary and theatrical successes, had been publicly accused of sodomy in 1895 by the Marquess of Queensbury, who was indignant over Wilde's friendship with his son, Lord Alfred Douglas. Encouraged by Douglas, Wilde sued Queensbury for libel and lost, and was subsequently tried and convicted on vice charges.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Siruela
Date Published: 07/2000
ISBN-13:9788478445134ISBN:8478445137
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780486293080ISBN:0486293084
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Near very good, good amount of underlines/notes in first half, roughly. Little edge wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 64 p. Dover Thrift Editions. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: The Philosophical Library, 1960
Description: Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Pages yellowed. Front free end page has piece cut out at top. Dust jacket is worn along edges with chips and tears. Underlining. read more
Description: Good in Fair jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, stain to the spine heel of the jacket and book with small amount of bleed in to the rear lower hinge, jacket is in tatters with chips missing to the top edge, a large chip missing from the lower edge of front panel, jacket is split up half way along the front board edge, split at heel with chips missing, and other moderate to heavy shopwear. This is apparently the first unabridged edition of Wilde's long prose work(it was kept from complete ... read more
Edition: Hardcover
Binding: Fair
Publisher: Philosophical Library, New York
Date Published: 1950
Description: introduction by Vyvyan Holland. Poor. No Jacket. Hardcover Nonfiction General Nonfiction: The last published writing of Oscar Wilde, begun as a letter from jail to Lord Alfred Douglas but eventually becoming something else. The cover boards are stained and a bit chewed up, but the text is intact except for light penciled underlining and margin notes. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1964
Description: Near fine softcover with excellent spine and bright text. Neat owner's name and nominal lining to a few pages, barely noticeable. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage, [New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. 163 p. 18 cm., V-256. First Vintage edition with intro by Jacques Barzum. Pages clean, cream colored and unmarked except for former owner's name on first page corner. Binding tight with crease. Cover colorful and attractive with light edge/shelf wear (includes a few edge/corner chips or dings and handling or age darkening marks). This is a nice sturdy copy, barely used. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"This was a painful read. I'm still not sure if it was edifying. But I've already been able to reference it as context in a couple of highly unrelated conversations, which tells me that somehow this is very important, and yet also tremendously awful."
"There are some amazing insights here. It gets a bit Jesus-y in the middle (most of which is pretty interesting, to be fair), but, overall, this is pretty profound."
"O how I love thee Oscar Wilde. I adore this love letter because it shows Wilde's faults and failings, his foibles and fripperies - in short, his humanity."
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