The Frozen Deep [with Biographical Introduction]
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'Novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is known for the first full length detective stories written in English. 'Woman in White' and 'Moonstone' are his most well-known and popular novels. 'The Frozen Deep' is the tale of Clara Burnham and the two romantic rivals for her attention, and is based on an 1845 expedition to the Arctic that ends in disaster. It also served as inspiration for 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens, Collins' friend and collaborator.' --The Bloomsbury Review
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Originally performed as a play starring Dickens and Collins - few people know of this prose version, found here in a new edition, a little masterpiece by the author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, which was to be the inspiration for Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Based on the doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, The Frozen Deep is a dramatic tale of vengeance and self-sacrifice. Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of Richard Wardour, and his mistaken belief that they will one day marry. On different ships, the two men have no cause to meet - until disaster strikes and they find themselves united by their battle for survival. When they learn of their rivalry, there follows an act of pure selflessness, making The Frozen Deep one of Collins' most moving and tragic works.
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This novel is rather insubstantial as it stands and leaves one wishing for how it might have been fleshed out by Collins in his prime. It is of interest since both Collins and Dickens performed in it when it was dramatised for the stage. But still a pleasure to read; Collins will never let go of the reader's attention even when his demon may have deserted him.
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Here, in a gorgeous little edition from Hesperus Classics, is the prose version of a play, first performed at Charles Dickens's home in 1857, which captured the yearnings and griefs of a nation with a fictionalized Arctic expedition loosely based on the voyages of Sir John Franklin, who disappeared with two ships and 128 men on his last voyage to the Frozen Regions. The play, as it happened, captured more than a Polar passion -- since when it was revived for public performances in Manchester later in 1857. Dickens fell in love with one of the actresses -- Ellen Ternan -- and left his wife for her. Collins, the main author of the play, decided after a later and less successful revival to convert it into a novella, and a reading of this text formed a staple of his lecture tours later in life. It's a harrowing tale, though perhaps a bit melodramatic for today's tastes to be sure, but still worth a read -- and there's no lovelier edition than this one.
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Gothic Victorian melodrama at its worst - one just wishes all the characters would die on the first page.
However, not typical of his great works - No Name and Hide And Seek among others.
However, not typical of his great works - No Name and Hide And Seek among others.
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