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Title: Classic melodrama
Review: I loved Wilkie Collins "Women in White" and "The Moonstone," so was expecting good things with "Basil" but it was a bit too overly dramatic for my taste. If anything, its probably showing its age -- it was published in 1852. Today, we don't expect our men -- or women for that matter -- to fall into a swoon at the drop of the hat. I think the subject matter is still very current -- I think too many people fall in love with love, or lust, and marry people that they haven't really gotten to know and all too soon they feel trapped in a marriage that is not what they envisioned it would it (and which rarely is achievable). Can I recommend it? Not really, unless you enjoy reading books from that era.
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