# Basil

By Wilkie Collins.

"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. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Young men -- Psychology -- Fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Revenge -- Fiction

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- [Basil](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/5066) by Wilkie Collins (11 h 15 min, English)

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