TY - BOOK AU - Collins,Wilkie TI - Basil AV - PR PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Inheritance and succession -- Fiction KW - Young men -- Psychology -- Fiction KW - Fathers and sons -- Fiction KW - England -- Fiction KW - Revenge -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_(novel); Release date is 2003-11-01; Produced by James Rusk; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Basil" by Wilkie Collins is a novel written in 1852. A young man from an aristocratic family falls in love at first sight with a shopkeeper's daughter and enters into a secret marriage. Bound by her father's strange condition to live apart for a year, Basil's patience is tested when the mysterious Mannion appears. Betrayal, violence, and a thirst for revenge follow as dark family secrets emerge, connecting these strangers in ways no one could have imagined. The story builds to a dramatic confrontation on the treacherous cliffs of Cornwall. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4605 ER -