Poor Miss Finch (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Collins, Wilkie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192836994 ISBN 13: 9780192836991

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back 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.

About the Author:

Catherine Peters edited Collins: Armdale and Hide and Seek for World's Classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0192836994
• ISBN 13: 9780192836991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Peters Catherine