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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Imprint:	Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description:	xliv, 356 p. ; 19 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subject:	Inheritance and succession -- Fiction. Young men -- Psychology -- Fiction. Fathers and sons -- Fiction. Revenge -- Fiction. Fathers and sons. Inheritance and succession. Revenge. Young men. England -- Fiction. England -- London. Fiction. Psychological fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4218741

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Other authors / contributors:	Goldman, Dorothy.
ISBN:	0192835483
Notes:	The text is that of the 1852 rev. ed. Includes bibliographical references : p. (xxv-xxvi).

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Summary:	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 nineteenth century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world. Contemporary reviewers vehemently disapproved of this explicit treatment of adultery; and even today the passionate and lurid atmosphere he creates still has the power to disturb the reader.
Item Description:	The text is that of the 1852 rev. ed.
Physical Description:	xliv, 356 p. ; 19 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references : p. (xxv-xxvi).
ISBN:	0192835483