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. This book is intended for general, students and teachers of Victorian fiction, women's studies.
- ISBN10 0486240150
- ISBN13 9780486240152
- Publish Date 1 September 1980
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 May 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dover Publications Inc.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 344
- Language English