Author: COLLINS, WILKIE
Title: Basil
Description: New York, Dover Publications. 1980. (ISBN: 0486240150) Paperback. Book, 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. Good.

Keywords: 0486240150 London Sex Sexual Adultery Scandal Novel


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