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Poor Miss Finch
Wilkie Collins
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Description for Poor Miss Finch
Paperback. Editor(s): Peters, Catherine. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
Wilkie Collin's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth century realist fiction, Collins not only takes a blind person as his central character but also explores the idea of blindness and its implications. His sensitive presentation of the difficulties, disappointments, and occasional delights which follow the recovery of sight by someone blind since infancy is still one of ... Read more
Wilkie Collin's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth century realist fiction, Collins not only takes a blind person as his central character but also explores the idea of blindness and its implications. His sensitive presentation of the difficulties, disappointments, and occasional delights which follow the recovery of sight by someone blind since infancy is still one of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199554065
SKU
V9780199554065
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About Wilkie Collins
Catherine Peters edited Collins: Armdale and Hide and Seek for World's Classics.
Reviews for Poor Miss Finch
praiseworthy novel ... it is well worth exhuming
David Holloway, Sunday Telegraph
David Holloway, Sunday Telegraph