The Frozen Deep and Other TalesChatto and Windus, 1875 - 322 páginas The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard, spiced up with dangerous expeditions, mysterious visions and life-threatening circumstances. The end is as surprising and unexpected as we are (or are not) accustomed to in Collins' books. |
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... English sea - port . The time is night . And the business of the moment is - dancing . The The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball , in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from their port . ships ...
... English sea - port . The time is night . And the business of the moment is - dancing . The The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball , in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from their port . ships ...
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... English , for opposite couple . The conversation between Captain Helding and Mrs. Crayford , in one of the intervals of the dance , turns on Miss Burnham . The Captain is greatly interested in Clara . He admires her beauty , but he ...
... English , for opposite couple . The conversation between Captain Helding and Mrs. Crayford , in one of the intervals of the dance , turns on Miss Burnham . The Captain is greatly interested in Clara . He admires her beauty , but he ...
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... other men , Frank ! " ( The farewell warning of Crayford in the soli- tudes of the Frozen Deep , repeated by Clara in the garden of her English home ! ) T A moment of silence follows , and in that mo- 90 THE FROZEN DEEP .
... other men , Frank ! " ( The farewell warning of Crayford in the soli- tudes of the Frozen Deep , repeated by Clara in the garden of her English home ! ) T A moment of silence follows , and in that mo- 90 THE FROZEN DEEP .
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... English steamship lies at anchor in the offing . The vessel is plainly visible through the open door- way of a large boat - house on the shore ; one of the buildings attached to a fishing - station on the coast of the island . The only ...
... English steamship lies at anchor in the offing . The vessel is plainly visible through the open door- way of a large boat - house on the shore ; one of the buildings attached to a fishing - station on the coast of the island . The only ...
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... English gentleman- age ( let us say ) forty - no profession - moderate politics - middle height - fair complexion - easy character - plenty of money . I fell in My wife is a French lady . She was Mademoi- selle Clotilde Delorge - when I ...
... English gentleman- age ( let us say ) forty - no profession - moderate politics - middle height - fair complexion - easy character - plenty of money . I fell in My wife is a French lady . She was Mademoi- selle Clotilde Delorge - when I ...
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The Frozen Deep and Other Stories (EasyRead Comfort Edition) Wilkie Collins Pré-visualização limitada - 1999 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Aldersley ALFRED CONCANEN Ambrose and Silas answered Arctic asked aunt Chance beautiful boat-house bones brother Captain Helding Clara cloth extra confession Cray Crown 8vo dear doctor door dream Edition England English Engravings Expedition eyes face Facsimile Fairbank Fcap feel folio Francis Raven Frank Frozen Deep gilt edges hand happened hear heard horse imperial 4to Imperial 8vo J. R. PLANCHÉ John Jago John Want knife lady laudanum leave Lefrank living mind Miss Burnham Miss Meadowcroft morning morocco Morwick Farm mother murder Naomi Narrabee never night officers passed plainly Plates Portrait question replied Richard Wardour Rigobert round says the captain Sea-Mew side Silas Meadowcroft silence Sir NOEL PATON Somerset Herald speak spoke Steventon stick stopped story suddenly tell tion told took turned voice waiting Wanderer whispered wife WILKIE COLLINS woman words
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Página 308 - Series. The FIRST SERIES including Examples by WILKIE, CONSTABLE TURNER, MULREADY, LANDSEER, MACLISE, EM WARD, FRITH, Sir JOHN GILBERT, LESLIE, ANSDELL, MARCUS STONE, Sir NOEL PATON, FAED, EYRE CROWE, GAVIN O'NEIL, and MADOX BROWN.
Página 314 - Cyclopaedia of Costume ; or, A Dictionary of Dress — Regal, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military — from the Earliest Period in England to the reign of George the Third. Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent, and a General History of the Costumes of the Principal Countries of Europe. By JR PLANCHE, Somerset Herald.
Página 14 - History of Caricature and of the Grotesque in Art, Literature, Sculpture, and Painting, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By THOMAS WRIGHT, MA, FSA Profusely illustrated by FW FAIRHOLT, FSA...
Página 11 - Syntax's (Dr.) Three Tours: In Search of the Picturesque, in Search of Consolation, and in Search of a Wife. With the whole of ROWLANDSON'S droll page Illustrations in Colours and a Life of the Author by JC HOTTEN.
Página 318 - A complete edition of Lamb's •writings, in prose and verse, has long been wanted, and is now supplied. The editor appears to have taken great pains to bring together Lamb's scattered contributions, and his collection contains a number of pieces which are now reproduced for the first time since their original appearance in various old periodicals
Página 9 - MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. London, Printed by ISAAC IAGGARD and ED. BLOUNT. 1623...
Página 318 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Página 13 - Vagabondiana ; or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London ; with Portraits of the most Remarkable, drawn from the Life by JOHN THOMAS SMITH, late Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum. With Introduction by FRANCIS DOUCE, and Descriptive Text. With the Woodcuts and the 32 Plates, from the original Coppers.
Página 308 - As Pretty as Seven, and other German Stories. Collected by LUDWIG BECHSTEIN. With Additional Tales by the Brothers GRIMM, and 100 Illusts.
Página 5 - Complete in Three Vols. Vol. I. contains the Plays complete, including the doubtful ones; Vol. II. the Poems and Minor Translations, with an Introductory Essay by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.