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In Basils secret and unconsummated marriage to Margaret Sherwin the linen-drapers sexually precocious daughter and through the consequent shocks and horrors of betrayal insanity and death Collins reveals the bustling commercial London of the first half of the nineteenth century wreaking its vengeance on a still-powerful aristocratic world But although Basil himself does not recognize them the story forces other conflicts on the readers attention ...Seguir leyendo