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Oscar Wilde: De Profundis (Unabridged)

Read by Simon Russell Beale

Oscar Wilde: De Profundis (Unabridged)

Oscar Wilde: De Profundis (Unabridged)

Read by Simon Russell Beale

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Written during his time in Reading Gaol, De Profundis is Oscar Wilde's moving letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, whose relationship with Wilde led to the poet's imprisonment. Here Wilde repudiates Lord Alfred and reflects on his ordeal, acknowledging how the depths of his sorrow have helped liberate him towards a fuller, freer wisdom. Brimming with beautiful passages, De Profundis is a profound and inspiring treatise on the meaning of suffering.

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Merlin Holland: Introduction by Merlin Holland
Work length8:49
Oscar Wilde: De Profundis (Unabridged)
Work length4:45:40
De Profundis
Track length6:26
I remember, for instance, in September '93…
Track length7:12
When I tell you that between the autumn of 1892…
Track length8:50
On our return to London those of my friends…
Track length9:18
On my return to London next day I remember…
Track length8:58
I spoke of your conduct to me on three successive days…
Track length9:28
You concluded your letter by saying…
Track length8:05
While I am staying with you at Salisbury you are terribly…
Track length6:36
You thought again that in sending a lawyer's letter…
Track length7:05
Hate blinds people. You were not aware of that.
Track length7:12
The key of the situation rested entirely with yourself.
Track length8:55
How clearly I saw it then, as now, I need not tell you.
Track length6:52
The second piece of news followed shortly afterwards.
Track length9:25
But at the time I wrote to you I felt that for both our sakes…
Track length7:03
Three more months go over…
Track length8:13
I have spoken to you at length on this point in order that…
Track length6:44
Ah! had you been in prison – I will not say through…
Track length6:58
And the end of it all is that I have got to forgive you.
Track length8:23
Of course I know that to ask for alms on the highway…
Track length8:20
Many men on their release carry their prison along…
Track length6:54
Sorrow, then, and all that it teaches one…
Track length9:00
This new life, as through my love of Dante…
Track length6:30
Christ's place indeed is with the poets.
Track length7:36
I bore up against everything with some stubbornness…
Track length7:37
The song of Isaiah, 'He is despised…'
Track length7:34
And while in reading the Gospels…
Track length8:03
Those whom he saved from their sins…
Track length6:32
I hope to live long enough, and to produce work of such…
Track length7:09
To each of us different fates have been meted out…
Track length9:16
And the curious thing to me is that you should…
Track length5:46
Does it ever occur to you what an awful position…
Track length6:08
As if it had been possible for me to gradually drop you!
Track length7:20
I know she puts the blame on me. I hear of it…
Track length7:37
I remember as I was sitting in the dock on the occasion…
Track length7:46
I know of nothing in all Drama more incomparable…
Track length6:51
I am told by More Adey in his letter that last summer…
Track length6:31
The second thing about which I have to speak to you…
Track length6:21
I hope that our meeting will be what a meeting between you…
Track length5:06
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