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Basil

by Wilkie Collins

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First published
1852
Pages
287
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11 h 14 min · 34 parts

  1. 00 - Letter of Dedication

    8:46

  2. 01 - Part 1 chapter 1

    3:32

  3. 02 - Part 1 chapter 2

    6:09

  4. 03 - Part 1 chapter 3

    12:35

  5. 04 - Part 1 chapter 4

    16:05

  6. 05 - Part 1 chapter 5

    14:08

  7. 06 - Part 1 chapter 6

    5:47

  8. 07 - Part 1 chapter 7

    27:38

  9. 08 - Part 1 chapter 8

    16:05

  10. 09 - Part 1 chapter 9

    24:30

  11. 10 - Part 1 chapter 10

    22:17

  12. 11 - Part 1 chapter 11

    25:35

  13. 12 - Part 1 chapter 12

    28:20

  14. 13 - Part 2 chapter 1

    13:42

  15. 14 - Part 2 chapter 2

    17:36

  16. 15 - Part 2 chapter 3

    24:13

  17. 16 - Part 2 chapter 4

    14:54

  18. 17 - Part 2 chapter 5

    16:39

  19. 18 - Part 2 chapter 6

    14:01

  20. 19 - Part 2 chapter 7

    23:19

  21. 20 - Part 3 chapter 1

    22:50

  22. 21 - Part 3 chapter 2

    25:31

  23. 22 - Part 3 chapter 3

    30:45

  24. 23 - Part 3 chapter 4

    28:14

  25. 24 - Part 3 chapter 5 part 1

    35:27

  26. 25 - Part 3 chapter 5 part 2

    30:19

  27. 26 - Part 3 chapter 6

    38:10

  28. 27 - Part 3 chapter 7 part 1

    18:18

  29. 28 - Part 3 chapter 7 part 2

    25:54

  30. 29 - Part 3 chapter 8 part 1

    17:31

  31. 30 - Part 3 chapter 8 part 2

    33:44

  32. 31 - Letters in Conclusion - Letter 1

    7:27

  33. 32 - Letters in Conclusion - Letter 2

    7:13

  34. 33 - Letters in Conclusion - Letter 3

    17:37

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Wilkie Collins wrote this dark tale of obsession early in his career, before the triumphs that made his name. Basil, the younger son of a proud aristocratic family, glimpses a linen-draper's daughter on an omnibus and is consumed by desire. He marries Margaret Sherwin in secret, agreeing to her father's strange demand that the couple live apart for a year. When the sinister clerk Mannion enters the household, that fragile arrangement collapses into betrayal, violence, and a hunger for revenge that pushes Basil toward ruin. Collins probes class, sexual longing, and the thin line between passion and madness with a frankness that unsettled Victorian readers.

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Wilkie Collins

Collins wrote The Woman in White for Dickens's magazine and then The Moonstone, which is usually called the first English detective novel and gave the form Sergeant Cuff, the country-house theft and the unreliable multiple narration.

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First published
1852
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
287
Language
English
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