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Poor Miss Finch Paperback - 2009
by Collins, Wilkie/ Peters, Catherine (Editor)
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Details
- Title Poor Miss Finch
- Author Collins, Wilkie/ Peters, Catherine (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date 2009
- Bookseller's Inventory # __0199554064
- ISBN 9780199554065 / 0199554064
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.9 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009291724
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
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 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 the best accounts in fiction of a problem which continues to intrigue philosophers, psychologists, and the general public, as it has done since it was first discussed by Locke and Berkeley in the eighteenth century.