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 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.
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By:
Wilkie Collins Edited by:
Catherine Peters Imprint: Worlds Classics Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 195mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 332g ISBN:9780199554065 ISBN 10: 0199554064 Series:Oxford World's Classics Pages: 480 Publication Date:13 November 2008 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for Poor Miss Finch
`praiseworthy novel ... it is well worth exhuming' David Holloway, Sunday Telegraph
