Basil by Wilkie Collins

Basil by Wilkie Collins

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In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Wilkie Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world.

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Basil by Wilkie Collins

In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the nineteenth century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world. Contemporary reviewers vehemently disapproved of this explicit treatment of adultery; and even today the passionate and lurid atmosphere he creates still has the power to disturb the reader.
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ISBN 13 9780192835482
ISBN 10 0192835483
Title Basil
Author Wilkie Collins
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2000-03-01
Number of pages 400
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