Basil (Oxford World's Classics)
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In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to Margaret Sherwin, and the consequent horrors of betrayal, insanity, and death, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the first half of the nineteenth century. Collins' treatment of adultery shocked contemporary reviewers, and even today the passionate and lurid atmosphere he created has the power to disturb the modern reader.
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I loved her! All that I felt, all that I knew, was summed up in those few words! Deteriorating as my passion was in its effect on the exercise of my mental powers, and on my candour and sense of duty in my intercourse with home, it was a pure feeling towards her. This is truth. If I lay on my death-bed, at the present moment, and knew that, at the Judgment Day, I should be tried by the truth or falsehood of the lines just written, I could say with my last breath: So be it; let them remain.
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Basil (Oxford World's Classics),Wilkie Collins,Dorothy Goldman,Oxford University Press, USA,0192835483,Classics,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Fathers and sons,Fiction,Inheritance and succession,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Psychology,Young men,19th century fiction,Fiction / Classics,Literature/English | British Literature | 19th C
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