** "The Frozen Deep" by Wilkie Collins is an adventure story from the Victorian era that explores hidden desires and complicated relationships on a dangerous Arctic journey. The story zooms in on characters like Clara Burnham, Mrs. Crayford, and Lieutenant Crayford, who are caught in a web of love, longing, and ghostly predictions as they face the deadly Arctic. The story starts at a lively celebration for an Arctic expedition, painting a picture of the time. Clara Burnham, who has a strong connection to Mrs. Crayford, becomes central when her strange illness, linked to Second Sight superstitions, worries everyone. Richard Wardour wants to win her back even though she is engaged to Francis Aldersley, making Clara's past even more complicated. As the characters interact, Clara's secret worries grow, setting the scene for a thrilling drama that mixes duty, love, and destiny against the backdrop of the icy wilderness. **
The Frozen Deep
By Wilkie Collins
** Amidst a chilling Arctic expedition, love, ghostly visions, and hidden desires collide, threatening to shatter lives and bury secrets beneath the frozen wasteland.
Summary
About the AuthorWilliam Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
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