num_pages: 344
description: Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He persuades her father to let him marry her secretly. He agrees on the condition, that, as his daughter is only seventeen, they live apart for the first year. At first the secret works, but then the mysterious Mannion, whose emotions cannot be read in his face, returns from abroad.
language: English
title: Basil
titlecomplete: Basil
genres: 19th Century, Victorian, Historical Fiction, Gothic, English Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Literature, Mystery
ratings_count: 2233
publisher: Wildside Pr