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Basil; a story of modern life

When a young aristocrat negotiates a secret marriage to a seventeen-year-old girl, he assents to her father's condition that they not live together for the first year. However, the consequences are tragic for all involved when, the year almost up, Basil catches his bride in a compromising position.A story of love at first sight, Basil was the second novel from Victorian author Wilkie Collins, best-known for The Woman in White. A 1998 film adaptation starred Academy Award-winner Jared Leto as Basil and Claire Forlani (Meet Joe Black) as his young wife.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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  • "W. Collins's works"@en
  • "Miss Morris and the stranger"@en
  • "Mrs. Zant and the ghost"
  • "Mrs. Zant and the ghost"@en
  • "Mr. Lismore and the widow"@en
  • "Basil"@it
  • "Crossed path; or Basil"@en

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  • "A Victorian suspense melodrama in which the aristocratic young hero, Basil, develops a fatally passionate love for a shop-keeper's daughter - a relationship which brings him into contact with the extraordinary Robert Mannion."
  • "When a young aristocrat negotiates a secret marriage to a seventeen-year-old girl, he assents to her father's condition that they not live together for the first year. However, the consequences are tragic for all involved when, the year almost up, Basil catches his bride in a compromising position.A story of love at first sight, Basil was the second novel from Victorian author Wilkie Collins, best-known for The Woman in White. A 1998 film adaptation starred Academy Award-winner Jared Leto as Basil and Claire Forlani (Meet Joe Black) as his young wife.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library."@en
  • "A young naive man of a noble family falls in love at first sight with a poor but beautiful young lady. Afraid of his stern father, he secretly marries her, but he is thoroughly shocked to discover her affair with Robert Mannion, her father's clerk."@en
  • ""Hace ya muchísimo tiempo que esperaba con verdadero placer, mi querido y viejo amigo, que llegase el momento propicio para rendirle el debido reconocimiento por el gran valor en que tengo el afecto que usted me profesa, así como el agradecimiento por las muchas muestras de amabilidad que ese afecto me ha deparado, y que ahora le ofrezco con inmensa alegría en este lugar. Al dedicarle esta obra que ahora se publica, cumplo por consiguiente un propósito que durante bastante tiempo he deseado muy sinceramente llevar a cabo.""@es
  • "A tale of criminality, almost revolting from its domestic horrors."@en
  • "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 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world."

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@es
  • "Roman anglais"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Classic fiction"
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Roman à sensation"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Three deckers"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Yellowbacks"@en
  • "Bookplates (Provenance)"@en
  • "Novela psicológica"@es

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  • "Basil; a story of modern life"@en
  • "Basil : a novel"@en
  • "Basil : a novel"
  • "Basilius, of Het zonderlinge huwelijk : een roman"
  • "Basil a story of modern life"
  • "Basil a story of modern life"@en
  • "Basilius, of het zonderlinge huwelijk : een roman"
  • "Basil : roman"
  • "Basil A novel"@en
  • "Basil. A novel"@en
  • "Basil : Little novels : Mrs. Zant and the ghost : Miss Morris and the stranger : Mr. Lismore and the widow"@en
  • "Basil a novel"
  • "Basil a novel"@en
  • "Basil : a story of modern life"
  • "Basil : a story of modern life"@en
  • "Basil ; Mrs. Zant and the ghost ; Miss Morris and the stranger ; Mr. Lismore and the widow"@en
  • "Basil roman"
  • "Basil, a novel"@en
  • "北莊舊事"
  • "Basil. Little novels: Mrs. Zant and the ghost. Miss Morris and the stranger. Mr. Lismore and the widow"@en
  • "Basil"@en
  • "Basil"
  • "Basil"@es
  • "Basil"@it
  • "[Basil: a story of modern life.]"
  • "[Basil: a story of modern life.]"@en
  • "Basils Liebe der Roman einer großen Obsession"
  • "Bei zhuang jiu shi"
  • "Basil: a story of modern life"@en

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