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Poor Miss Finch

Wilkie Collins

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"Poor Miss Finch." That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, "poor thing, she's blind, isn't it awful?" Ha! Lucilla Finch is the wisest of all the characters, in spite of, and perhaps because of, her blindness. This story is about her trials, tribulations and triumphs. She reminds me of myself. Not the falling recklessly in love and being pulled this way and that by foolish young men and mad old doctors. I mean that, like her, I'm blind and proud of it!

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . building—and he said that with extreme difficulty—was, "Pray let us be careful!"

The landlord was the first to reach the door. I was behind him. The rector—at some little distance—acted as rear-guard, with the South Downs behind him to retreat upon. Gootheridge rapped smartly on the door, and called out, "Mr. Dubourg!" There was no answer. There was only a dreadful silence. The suspense was more than I could endure. I pushed by the landlord, and turned the handle of the unlocked door.

"Let me go first, ma'am," said Gootheridge.

He pushed by me, in his turn. I followed him close. We entered the house, and called again. Again there was no answer. We looked into the little sitting-room on one side of the passage, and into the dining-room on the other. Both were empty. We went on to the back of the house, where the room was situated which Oscar called his workshop. When we tried the door of the workshop it was lo. . . Read More

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Poor Miss Finch segue la vicenda di Lucilla Finch, una giovane ragazza inglese dalla bellezza divina, cieca sin dall’infanzia che si ritroverà suo malgrado vittima di un astuto raggiro. Insieme a lei un personaggio dalle numerose sfaccettature con spiccate tendenze liberali, Madame Pratolungo, dal n

I think I’m going to go 3.5 rounded up to 4. I enjoyed this! I liked it less than The Woman in White and more than The Moonstone, The Dead Secret, and The Law and the Lady. I had so much fun reading along with Jess, Rainey, and Kate! We still need to chat about the ending so I’ll be back with more s

Llegué a esta novela sin prisa y con calma; puesto que, recién este mes me decidí a leerla (después de tenerla conmigo desde hace meses) y grata ha sido mi sorpresa.
Mi primer Wilkie Collins.

Esta el la historia de Lucilla o "La pobre señorita Finch", una joven invidente, que se verá envuelta en una s

This novel is really interesting in many ways. First of all, Wilkie Collins takes character types that would normally make for questionable characters in Victorian literature, the disabled and deformed, and makes them the heroes of his story in a sympathetic attempt to give them a voice and show how

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!

Having read all four of Wilkie Collins' most popular books (The Woman in White, Armadale, No Name and The Moonstone), I am now exploring his less popular novels. This one, Poor Miss Finch, was published in 1872 and unlike most of the books that preceded it, is not really a 'sensation novel', althoug

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