BASIL
Author(s): COLLINS WILKIE
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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General Fields
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- : Unknown
- : Oxford University Press
- : 226.0
- : 10 July 2008
- : 195mm x 128mm x 195mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : COLLINS WILKIE
- : Paperback
- : 320
- : FC