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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... lost vacant tone as if she was talking in her sleep . Whether what she said referred to past or future I cannot tell you . She spoke of persons in a foreign country - perfect strangers to my sister and to me . After a little interval ...
... lost vacant tone as if she was talking in her sleep . Whether what she said referred to past or future I cannot tell you . She spoke of persons in a foreign country - perfect strangers to my sister and to me . After a little interval ...
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... lost woman . It is only a question of time now ! " Clara ! do you love me ? " There is a pause . She shrinks from looking at him — she trembles with strange contradictory sen- sations of pleasure and pain . His arm steals round her he ...
... lost woman . It is only a question of time now ! " Clara ! do you love me ? " There is a pause . She shrinks from looking at him — she trembles with strange contradictory sen- sations of pleasure and pain . His arm steals round her he ...
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... lost man . Will you give me refuge ? ' That's what he said , Crayford , word for word . " " Did you ask him to explain himself further ? " " Not I ; I knew his value , and I took the poor devil on the spot without pestering him with any ...
... lost man . Will you give me refuge ? ' That's what he said , Crayford , word for word . " " Did you ask him to explain himself further ? " " Not I ; I knew his value , and I took the poor devil on the spot without pestering him with any ...
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... lost and ice- locked in the Polar wastes . The good ships " Wanderer " and " Sea - Mew , " entombed in ice , will never ride the buoyant waters more . Stripped of their lighter timbers , both vessels have been used for the construction ...
... lost and ice- locked in the Polar wastes . The good ships " Wanderer " and " Sea - Mew , " entombed in ice , will never ride the buoyant waters more . Stripped of their lighter timbers , both vessels have been used for the construction ...
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... lost it . A smile - a horrid , deforming , un- natural smile - spread slowly , stealthily , devilishly over his face . He left the fire ; he put the axe away softly in a corner ; he sat down in his old place , deliberately self ...
... lost it . A smile - a horrid , deforming , un- natural smile - spread slowly , stealthily , devilishly over his face . He left the fire ; he put the axe away softly in a corner ; he sat down in his old place , deliberately self ...
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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 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 Vols waiting Wanderer whispered wife WILKIE COLLINS woman words
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Página 310 - 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 316 - 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 16 - 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 13 - 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 319 - 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 10 - 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 320 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Página 15 - 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 310 - As Pretty as Seven, and other German Stories. Collected by LUDWIG BECHSTEIN. With Additional Tales by the Brothers GRIMM, and 100 Illusts.
Página 7 - 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.