Name: Basil
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Author: Ravell ; Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781981138685

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Illustrated by

Ravell

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

310

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.42 kg.

ISBN13

9781981138685

Synopsis "Basil"

In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Wilkie Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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