Penny Dreadfuls, 1866 · page 109 of 276
Ivan the Terrible; or, Dark Deeds of Night — page 109: what you’re looking at
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# Victorian Penny Dreadful Page Analysis This is a page of running prose from Chapter LIII (continued) of *Ivan the Terrible; or, Dark Deeds of Night*, a Victorian penny dreadful. The page includes a dramatic wood-engraved illustration depicting armed figures in what appears to be a nighttime confrontation or rescue scene. The text describes characters named Harry and Darby freeing a body from gallows irons, placing it in a hammock, and then searching through deep snow for a missing boy named Frank (Will Winter's brother), whom they discover unconscious and in danger of being buried by drifting snow. The melodramatic dialogue emphasizes urgency and peril. A notice at bottom mentions another engraving in preparation.
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