Basil

Wilkie Collins

• Novel
• Book language: English
• 291 pages

Basil is an early sensation novel by Wilkie Collins. It follows a young man of good family who enters a secret marriage with a merchant's daughter, defying social expectations, and faces the painful consequences of that choice. It is worth listening for its psychological tension and its place in the development of Victorian sensation fiction.

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