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De Profundis
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(1897) A long letter of self-discovery and of recrimination, written by Oscar *Wilde from Reading jail to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, whose silence after the prison sentence seemed a painful betrayal. The Latin title that Wilde had in mind for it was In Carcere et Vinculis (In Prison and in Chains), but when it was published in 1905 his literary executor used the two Latin words which begin Psalm 130, meaning 'Out of the depths'.
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