Basil by Wilkie Collins, Fiction, Classics (Hardcover)

from AJBraithwaite

Kept me gripped throughout, even though some of the characters' actions and motivations seemed rather unlikely - Mannion's in particular.

from MaggieFlo

Basil This was an interesting story. Collins was a contemporary of Charles Dickens and there are some similarities in their style. This is a fictionalized autobiography of a young man from a very wealthy family who becomes infatuated and eventually secretly marries a woman, Margaret Sherwin. Her ...

from helen295

Our narrator, the Basil of the title, is the son of a rich gentleman who is proud of his family's ancient background and despises anyone of a lower social standing. When Basil meets Margaret Sherwin on a London omnibus he falls in love at first sight and becomes determined to marry her. Unfortuna...

from souloftherose

Although Basil is far from being one of Collins' best novels, I enjoyed it a lot; partly because I enjoyed thinking about this as an early example of Collins' writing and an early example of a Victorian sensation novel and partly because I really enjoyed the over-the-top melodrama of this story. ...

from CareALotsClouds

'Basil', being one of Collins earlier works, was never going to be as exciting or thrilling as his later novels 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone'. I ventured to expect this when I voluntarily picked this book up to see the roots of the later masterpieces. 'Basil' is the beginning of the my...