de Profundis African American 'Tis also the season--for driving

'Tis also the season--for driving a sleigh

In addition to a thoroughly modernized vegetable chapter

" --School Library Journal (starred review)

and still the wars rage

de Profundis African American 'Tis also the season--for drivingWritten from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas's behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde's own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, De Profundis is a classic of gay