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Fiction · 1852 · English

Basil

by Wilkie Collins

About this book

Basil by Wilkie Collins explores inheritance and succession — fiction, young men — psychology — fiction, fathers and sons — fiction.

From the opening pages: “IT has long been one of my pleasantest anticipations to look forward to the time when I might offer to you, my old and dear friend, some such acknowledgment of the value I place on your affection for me, and of my grateful sense of the many acts of kindness by which that affection has been proved, as I now gladly offer in this place. In dedicating the present work to you, I fulfil therefore a purpose which, for some time past, I have sincerely desired to achieve; and, more than that, I gain for myself the satisfaction of knowing that there is one page, at least, of my book, on which I shall always look with unalloyed pleasure--the page that bears your…”

Author
Wilkie Collins
First published
1852
Category
Fiction
Language
English

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