Name: Basil (in Spanish)
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Author: Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9788488730985

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Alba

Year

1996

Language

Spanish

Pages

440

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8488730985

ISBN13

9788488730985

Edited in

España

Synopsis "Basil (in Spanish)"

Encuadernación: RústicaBasil, benjamín de "un caballero inglés de inmensa fortuna", se enamora de un flechazo de una muchacha a la que un día ve casualmente en un ómnibus. Después de conocerla, accede a casarse con ella, con la insólita condición, impuesta por el padre de la muchacha, de no consumar el matrimonio hasta que pase un año. Así empieza "la historia de un error inocente en sus comienzos, culpable en su desarrollo, fatal en su desenlace": la historia, en suma, de una degradación por amor. Un año después, un terrible descubrimiento arrastra a los personajes a una pesadilla de culpa, venganza, violencia y muerte en la que el bien y el mal revelan ocultas, perversas fraternidades. Segunda de las novelas de Wilkie Collins, Basil (1852) es ya un elocuente ejemplo de su universo característico, en el que, escarbando en "el secreto teatro del hogar", sin traspasar nunca los delicados muros de un interior doméstico, se encuentran toda la pasión y la sinrazón brutal de la novela gótica.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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