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Poor Miss Finch Free FREE POOR MISS FINCH PDF Wilkie Collins,Catherine Peters | 480 pages | 15 Jan 2009 | Oxford University Press | 9780199554065 | English | Oxford, United Kingdom Poor Miss Finch Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins is a novel about a young blind Poor Miss Finch who temporarily regains her sight while finding Poor Miss Finch 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. Poor Miss Finch being attacked and knocked unconscious by robbers, Oscar is nursed by Lucilla and falls in love with Poor Miss Finch, 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 compoundhas the side-effect of turning his skin a permanent, dark blue-grey. Despite Poor Miss Finch blindness, Lucilla suffers a violent phobia of dark colours, including dark- complexioned people, and family and friends conceal Oscar's condition from her. Meanwhile, Oscar's twin brother, Nugent, returns from Poor Miss Finch, where he has dissipated his fortune pursuing a career as a painter. Oscar is devoted to his brother, who is as outgoing, confident and charming as Oscar is diffident and awkward. Knowing of Lucilla's blindness, Nugent has arranged for her to be examined by a famous German oculist, Herr Grosse. Herr Grosse and an English oculist each examine Lucilla but disagree on her prognosis. Lucilla elects to be operated on by Herr Grosse, who believes he can cure her. After the operation, but before the bandages are taken off, Madame Pratolungo pressures Oscar into telling Lucilla of his disfigurement, but his nerve fails and, instead, he tells her it is Nugent who has been disfigured. Nugent is secretly Poor Miss Finch with Lucilla and now manipulates her into believing that he is Oscar. As Lucilla gradually regains her sight, Herr Grosse forbids family and friends from undeceiving her, since the shock might imperil her recovery. Madame Pratolungo intervenes decisively with Nugent, appealing to his conscience and threatening him with exposure if he continues with his plan to marry Lucilla under Oscar's name. He promises to go abroad to find his brother and return him home. Nugent soon returns to England and tracks Lucilla to the seaside, where, on Herr Grosse's orders, she is staying with her aunt, away from her immediate family. He pressures her to marry as soon as possible, without her family's knowledge, and works to poison her trust in Madame Pratolungo, who is away in Marseilles attending to her wayward father. In the novel's denouement, Madame Pratolungo locates Oscar with the help of a French detective. His experiences have revealed an unexpected Poor Miss Finch of character, and she conceives a new respect for him. The two of them race home to England to stop the marriage while there is still time. Held virtually prisoner at a Dubourg cousin's house, Lucilla is again totally blind. With the help of a kindly servant, she escapes to meet them, immediately recognizes the true Oscar, and is told the full story by Madame Pratolungo. A penitent Nugent returns to America, where he later dies on a polar expedition. Lucilla and Oscar settle in Dimchurch to raise a family, with Madame Pratolungo as her companion. Perfectly content in her Poor Miss Finch, she refuses Herr Grosse's offers to attempt another operation. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Poor Miss Finch First edition title page. This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. February Wilkie Collins. The Frozen Deep No Thoroughfare After Dark Categories : Poor Miss Finch novels Novels by Wilkie Collins. Hidden categories: Articles to be expanded from February All articles to be expanded Articles with empty sections from February All articles with empty sections Articles using small message boxes Articles with LibriVox links. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Add links. First edition title page. The Law and the Lady. Poor miss finch Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Poor Miss Finch editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins. Wilkie Collins's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical Poor Miss Finch who both fall Poor Miss Finch love with her, has the exciting complications of his better-known novels Poor Miss Finch it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Collins gives one of the best account Wilkie Collins'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 gives one of the best accounts in fiction of blindness and its implications. Get A Copy. Published September 14th by Oxford University Press first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Poor Miss Finchplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Poor Poor Miss Finch Finch. Oct 06, Katie Lumsden rated it really liked it. I really enjoyed this one - a very interesting and compelling novel, especially in the second half. I especially found the way it looked at Lucilla's blindness and Oscar's disfigurement really interesting. Would definitely recommend! Nov 06, Simon rated it really Poor Miss Finch it. Took me quite a while to get into this novel. That was my experience of No Name as well. In fact, that was my first and almost my last experience of Collins. I nearly gave up on it and then suddenly found the pages turning themselves as I was hurtled along. This grabbed hold of me eventually but its hurtling grip was never quite as strong as for No Name and nowhere near as strong as for The Moonstone or Woman in White. Mind you those two are very bright stars in the firmament of Victorian Liter Took me quite a while to get into this novel. Mind you those two are very bright stars in the firmament of Victorian Literature. This would be the Wilkie Collins that I would place on my reading list for a 19th Century Novel course. The elements are more open and there are a lot of them. This would make a great seminar novel for students who are beginning to build up their own maps of the landscape of English literature and Poor Miss Finch recurring features. You can cross reference this novel with Hardy, with Shakespeare, with Locke and Berkeley, with Dickens and they are Poor Miss Finch the names I've thought of while typing this sentence. I strongly recommend the introduction to the Oxford World Classics edition. This essay by Catherine Peters covers everything and more that I might have to say about the novel. It does what I like in a review which is to make me think that Poor Miss Finch own thoughts, as I was reading the book, had some validity. The fact that I like it because I agree with it doesn't necessarily make it a good essay but it saves me the effort of writing a long review. My usual rules for judging a book include: Did I enjoy it? Yes, eventually Would I read it again? Possibly Did I believe it? Not really but then I don't think you are supposed to. This is the Silas Marner end of Victorian literature where storytelling means just that and embraces the whole culture. Is there more to it than just the story? Apart from the dangerously pejorative word, 'just' I'd say an undoubted Poor Miss Finch. This volume has enough to keep Poor Miss Finch literary philosophers happy for a seminar or two themselves. Would I recommend it? To a fan of Dickens and Collins. To the student, see above. Jun 24, Sylvester rated it liked it Shelves:classicaudio-book. Collins can really bait a hook. The scene where Mme. Pratalungo first meets Miss Finch is a perfect example of how to draw a reader in and hold them. Nor does he shy away from the sensational - a blind heroine, a set of twins, and an extraordinary side-effect to medication? I couldn't help wondering what a blind person would think of the portrayal of Lucille. I haven't read many books with a blind protagonist. What Lucille said about "seeing" people giving too much importance to their sense of s Collins can Poor Miss Finch bait a hook. What Lucille said about "seeing" people giving too much importance to their sense of sight is probably quite true - not that sight isn't important, Poor Miss Finch that we neglect Poor Miss Finch appreciate the significant value of the other senses by comparison.
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