Basil by Wilkie Collins
"Basil" by Wilkie Collins is a novel written in 1852. A young man from an aristocratic family falls in love at first sight with a shopkeeper's daughter and enters into a secret marriage. Bound by her father's strange condition to live apart for a year, Basil's patience is tested when the mysterious Mannion appears. Betrayal, violence, and a thirst for revenge follow as dark family secrets emerge, connecting these strangers in ways
no one could have imagined. The story builds to a dramatic confrontation on the treacherous cliffs of Cornwall. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 |
|---|---|
| Title | Basil |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_(novel) |
| Credits | Produced by James Rusk |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 66.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
| Subject | Young men -- Psychology -- Fiction |
| Subject | Fathers and sons -- Fiction |
| Subject | England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Revenge -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 4605 |
| Release Date | Nov 1, 2003 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 27, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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