A fearless public introspection written with a gorgeous, powerful and confident command of the English language. They call it a 'love letter' but I feel like that term diminishes what it actually is. A letter to a lover (or former lover) is one thing, but using it as a vehicle for self-revelation and documenting spiritual evolution (without hyperbole) is quite another. Wilde's writing is so lovely you almost don't recognize the intensity of the words until you set the book down and discover it following you on the edge of consciousness in both sleep and waking hours. So many beautiful passages and quotes. If you don't already love him, you will after reading his personal expressions of sorrow and courage.

"I long to live so that I can explore what is no less than a new world for me. Do you want to know what this new world is? I think you can guess what it is. It is the world in which I have been living."