Basil

ISBN-13: 9781909735002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 226 str.

Wilkie Collins

Opis

Wilkie Collins novel Basil is regarded as the inspiration for the later sensation novel and ultimately todays detective genre. The book produced a furore when first published in 1852, Shocked by this frank tale of secret marriage, betrayal, madness and mortality, the critics and self-appointed upholders of Victorian values tore into the work, describing the book as a tale of criminality, almost revolting from its domestic horrors. The vicious atmosphere ... weighs on us like a nightmare. Seen from todays perspective Basil is a perceptive exploration of nineteenth-century sexuality and social class. It is also a gripping psychological thriller which, as the eponymous hero tells us, "... is the story of an error, innocent in its beginning, guilty in its progress, and fatal in its results".