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Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Interpersonal relations
ISBN : MSU:31293010739211
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNR:CR102006806
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726933062
What is "poor" about Miss Finch? Well, with a novel with names like "Mr Sebright" (he’s an eye specialist – "see bright", geddit?), it’s all about sight. You see, Lucilla Finch has been blind since infancy – until she meets the eccentric German doctor Herr Grosse who partially restores her sight. Far from treating her simply as a "poor" blind Victorian woman, this novel is conscious of the experience of blindness, particularly that of blindness and romance. Published a few years after his acclaimed mystery novel, "The Moonstone" (which starred Sarah Hadland in a recent BBC adaptation), Wilkie Collins now keeps up the mystery in "Poor Miss Finch". Having researched a real case of regained sight, Collins depicts great detail in Lucilla’s experience of colours whilst in the midst of a love triangle. Two brothers want Lucilla’s hand in marriage; their deception and plotting must be foiled before Lucilla unwittingly changes her life forever. London-born Wilke Collins (1824-1889) became known in Victorian England for his novels and plays, sometimes writing together with Charles Dickens. His most famous works, "The Woman in White" (1859) and "The Moonstone" (1868), are examples of the first modern detective novels.
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798728759003
The story is told by a Frenchwoman called Madame Pratolungo, the widow of a South American political activist, who has just arrived in the village of Dimchurch in England to take up a position as companion to Lucilla Finch. Lucilla has been blind since she was a child and her blindness has led to a strange phenomenon - she has developed an irrational fear of darkness and dark colours. Even knowing that someone is wearing a dark purple dress, for example, sends her into a panic. Oscar Dubourg and his twin brother Nugent are newcomers to Dimchurch. Soon after their arrival, Oscar suffers a fit and learns that he has epilepsy. In the 19th century a common cure for epilepsy was to take nitrate of silver. Unfortunately, a side effect of nitrate of silver consumption is that the skin turns blue. When Oscar and Lucilla fall in love, Oscar feels secure in the knowledge that Lucilla will never be able to see him and need never be told that his face is dark blue. However, when Nugent introduces them to the German oculist Herr Grosse, it appears that there could still be hope for Lucilla after all. This book handles the topic of blindness in a sensitive and intriguing way. It's obvious that Collins had done a lot of research into the subject and the results are fascinating. He discusses the theory that when a person is blind their other senses improve to compensate for their lack of sight and he weighs up the advantages and disadvantages there would be if this person then regained their sight. I had never even thought about some of the aspects of blindness that are mentioned in the book. For example, there's an interesting moment when Madame Pratolungo realises why Lucilla shows little regard for normal Victorian conventions and proprieties. It meant that here was one strange side shown to me of the terrible affliction that darkened her life. It meant that modesty is essentially the growth of our own consciousness of the eyes of others judging us - and that blindness is never bashful, for the one simple reason that blindness cannot see. The characters, as usual, are wonderful - most of them anyway. I didn't find Lucilla very likeable (she has a tendency to throw foot-stamping tantrums when she doesn't get her own way) but I loved Madame Pratolungo - she was such an amusing and engaging narrator! I cast all feminine restraints to the winds. I sat down with my legs anyhow, like a man. I rammed my hands into the pockets of my dressing-gown. Did I cry? A word in your ear - and let it go no farther. I swore. We also meet Reverend Finch, Lucilla's father, who chooses to recite Hamlet at the most inappropriate moments, and his wife, Mrs Finch, who is 'never completely dressed; never completely dry; always with a baby in one hand and a novel in the other'. With Lucilla's little half-sister Jicks', Collins even makes a three year old girl into an unusual and memorable character: This amazing apparition advanced into the middle of the room, holding hugged under one arm a ragged and disreputable-looking doll; stared hard, first at Oscar, then at me; advanced to my knees; laid the disreputable doll on my lap; and, pointing to a vacant chair at my side, claimed the rights of hospitality in these words: "Jicks will sit down." Although I thought parts of the plot felt contrived, the story did become very gripping towards the end. This was an interesting and thought provoking read, and if you have enjoyed any other Wilkie Collins books, then I suspect you might enjoy this one too.
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1378147189
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Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781621152071
Come, come and hear of the strange and terrible tale of Miss Finch, an exacting woman befallen by mystery and abduction deep under the streets of London! New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivers another stunning hardcover graphic novel with longtime collaborator Michael Zulli (Creatures of the Night, The Sandman). This is the first comics adaptation of his popular story "The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch," which saw print only in the U.K. edition of Gaiman’s award-winning work Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions and was recently interpreted for his Speaking in Tongues CD. The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch is a "mostly true story" that combines the author’s trademark magic realism with Zulli’s sumptuous paintings, and has been newly rewritten for this hardcover. Join a group of friends, with the stern Miss Finch in tow, as they enter musty caverns for a subterranean circus spectacle called "The Theatre of Night’s Dreaming." Come inside, get out of the pounding rain, and witness this strange world of vampires, ringmasters, illusions and the Cabinet of Wishes Fulfill’d.
Author : Collins Wilkie
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368164324
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781427060297
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005604411
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 102169536X
Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch is a novel about a young woman named Lucilla who is blind. She finds herself torn between two suitors, Oscar and Nugent. Her decision ultimately leads to tragedy and heartbreak. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Audiobooks
ISBN : 9781427061621
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1731191162
Poor Miss Finch (1872) by Wilkie Collins is a novel about a young blind woman who temporarily regains her sight while finding herself in a romantic triangle with two brothers. Twenty-one-year-old Lucilla Finch, the independently wealthy daughter of the rector of Dimchurch, Sussex, has been blind since infancy. Shortly after the narrator, Madame Pratolungo, arrives to serve as her paid companion, Lucilla falls in love with Oscar Dubourg, her shy and reclusive neighbour, also wealthy, who devotes himself to craftsmanship in precious metals.After being attacked and knocked unconscious by robbers, Oscar is nursed by Lucilla and falls in love with her, and the couple become engaged. Their plans are jeopardized by Oscar's epilepsy, a result of the blow to his head. The only effective treatment, a silver compound, has the side-effect of turning his skin a permanent, dark blue-grey. Despite her blindness, Lucilla suffers a violent phobia of dark colours, including dark-complexioned people, and family and friends conceal Oscar's condition from her.
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MSU:31293010739229
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781427061638
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : New York : Scribner's
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Blind women
ISBN : UCAL:B5300933