[Gutenberg 4605] • Basil
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- Authors
- Collins, Wilkie
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Tags
- england -- fiction , mystery , inheritance and succession -- fiction , revenge -- fiction , classics , fathers and sons -- fiction , young men -- psychology -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9780192835482
- Date
- 1852-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.27 MB
- Lang
- en
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.