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Poor Miss Finch (Oxford World's Classics) Taschenbuch – 15. Januar 2009. 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 ...
15 de jan. de 2009 · Poor Miss Finch 480. by Wilkie Collins, Catherine Peters (Editor) View More. Paperback $11.95 . View All Available Formats & Editions. Hardcover. $34.95 ...
At every turn, Poor Miss Finch mines issues of identity and investigates the ways in which identity becomes withheld and disclosed–closeted and uncloseted–through a series of spectacular deceptions that enable the keeping of secrets.
Lucilla Finch, a young middle-class woman who has been blind since early childhood, falls in love with Oscar Dubourg. After a head injury, Oscar develops epilepsy, and then turns blue from the treatment. Lucilla harbors an irrational hatred of dark colors, including dark skin; thus Oscar has a strong desire to hide his blueness from Lucilla ...
17 de mar. de 2023 · Title: Poor Miss Finch. Author and Title: Wilkie Collins. Poor Miss Finch. First Edition: London: Bentley, 1872. 3 volumes, 31s 6d. Serialization: Cassell's Magazine, 2 September 1871 to 24 February 1872 (weekly) Title Tags: Character: Disabled; Reprint Series: Oxford World's Classics (2017) References: EC. Texts
To be the objects of a calamity of any kind, seems to raise them in their own estimations.”. ― Wilkie Collins, Poor Miss Finch. 1 likes. Like. “Excuse my dress. I was half an hour late this morning. When you lose half an hour in this house, you never can pick it up again, try how you may. -Reverend Finch's wife”.
preceded "Poor Miss Finch." But, so far as I know, blindness in these cases has been always exhibited, more or less exclusively, from the ideal and the sentimental point of view. The attempt here made is to appeal to an interest of another kind, by exhibiting blindness as it really is. I have carefully
