Ebook {Epub PDF} Basil by Wilkie Collins

15 rows ·  · Basil by Wilkie Collins - Free Ebook. Project Gutenberg. 65, free ebooks. 54 by Wilkie Author: Wilkie Collins. Basil by Wilkie Collins [Collins, Wilkie] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Basil by Wilkie Collins. "Basil" was the second work of fiction which I produced. On its appearance, it was condemned off-hand, by a certain class of readers, as an outrage on their sense of propriety. Conscious of having designed and written, my story with the strictest regard to true delicacy, as distinguished from false--I.

Basil () by Wilkie Collins. Basil was Wilkie Collins' second novel () - after a best forgotten attempt to copy Bulwer-Lytton in a historical narrative - and his first so-called "sensation novel." The concise work is set squarely in the present time and would be his best novel of the whole decade. It is the story of a secret and unconsummated marriage, followed by an act of adultery. 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 www.doorway.ruporary reviewers vehemently disapproved of this explicit treatment of adultery; and even today. podcast_basil-by-collins-wilkie_ Language English Mediatype collection Public-format Metadata Animated GIF Thumbnail Item Tile Publicdate Subject podcasts Basil by COLLINS, Wilkie Title Basil by COLLINS, Wilkie. Created on. November 27 arkiver2 Archivist.

Basil by Wilkie Collins - Free Ebook. Project Gutenberg. 65, free ebooks. 54 by Wilkie. BASIL: A STORY OF MODERN LIFE. [ Plot Summary] [ Publishing History] Title-page of the first edition in Basil was published in and dedicated to Charles Ward. It was Collins's second full-length work of fiction and first contemporary novel. In the introduction, he warns the reader that he has 'not hesitated to violate the conventionalities of sentimental fiction.'. Basil by Wilkie Collins [Collins, Wilkie] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Basil by Wilkie Collins.