Download or read book The Soul of Man and Prison Writings written by Oscar Wilde and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains Wilde's less familiar, serious writings: The Soul of Man, his classic manifesto on individualism, De Profundis, a letter composed while in Reading Gaol, two letters on prison injustices sent to the Daily Chronicle, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a work inspired by the execution of a fellow prisoner for murder.