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I was intercepted, basil, on my way to my own room by your sister, and taken in here to advise about a new set of bookcases for you, when i ought to have been attending to my own money matters. Check out other translated books in french, spanish languages. In basil s secret and unconsummated marriage to the linendrapers 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. Basil was published in 1852 and dedicated to charles ward. Sep 22, 2012 opening my fourth year course in madness and sexuality in victorian literature, the first book i encountered was wilkie collins basil.
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