Poor Miss Finch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Wilkie.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (595 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What if you had been deprived of sight for your entire life -- only to have your vision restored just as you found yourself falling in love for the first time? That's the seemingly miraculous fate that befalls the Miss Finch of the title in this classic novel from abidingly popular nineteenth-century author Wilkie Collins.

Contents:

Title; Contents; Letter of Dedication; Note to the Present Edition; PART THE FIRST; Chapter the First - Madame Pratolungo Presents Herself; Chapter the Second - Madame Pratolungo Makes a Voyage on Land; Chapter the Third - Poor Miss Finch; Chapter the Fourth - Twilight View of the Man; Chapter the Fifth - Candlelight View of the Man; Chapter the Sixth - A Cage of Finches; Chapter the Seventh - Daylight View of the Man; Chapter the Eighth - The Perjury of the Clock; Chapter the Ninth - The Hero of the Trial; Chapter the Tenth - First Appearance of Jicks; Chapter the Eleventh - Blind Love

Chapter the Twelfth - Mr. Finch Smells MoneyChapter the Thirteenth - Second Appearance of Jicks; Chapter the Fourteenth - Discoveries at Browndown; Chapter the Fifteenth - Events at the Bedside; Chapter the Sixteenth - First Result of the Robbery; Chapter the Seventeenth - The Doctor's Opinion; Chapter the Eighteenth - Family Troubles; Chapter the Nineteenth - Second Result of the Robbery; Chapter the Twentieth - Good Papa Again!; Chapter the Twenty-First - Madame Pratolungo Returns to Dimchurch; Chapter the Twenty-Second - The Twin-Brother's Letter

Chapter the Twenty-Third - He Sets Us All RightChapter the Twenty-Fourth - He Sees Lucilla; Chapter the Twenty-Fifth - Nugent Puzzles Madame Pratolungo; Chapter the Twenty-Sixth - He Proves Equal to the Occasion; Chapter the Twenty-Seventh - He Finds a Way Out of It; Chapter the Twenty-Eighth - He Crosses the Rubicon; Chapter the Twenty-Ninth - Parliamentary Summary; Chapter the Thirtieth - Herr Grosse; Chapter the Thirty-First - ""Who Shall Decide When Doctors Disagree?""; Chapter the Thirty-Second - Alas for the Marriage!; Chapter the Thirty-Third - The Day Between; PART THE SECOND

Chapter the Thirty-Fourth - Nugent Shows His HandChapter the Thirty-Fifth - Lucilla Tries Her Sight; Chapter the Thirty-Sixth - The Brothers Meet; Chapter the Thirty-Seventh - The Brothers Change Places; Chapter the Thirty-Eighth - Is there No Excuse for Him?; Chapter the Thirty-Ninth - She Learns to See; Chapter the Fortieth - Traces of Nugent; Chapter the Forty-First - A Hard Time for Madame Pratolungo; Chapter the Forty-Second - The Story of Lucilla: Told by Herself; Chapter the Forty-Third - Lucilla's Journal, Continued; Chapter the Forty-Fourth - Lucilla's Journal, Continued

Chapter the Forty-Fifth - Lucilla's Journal, ConcludedChapter the Forty-Sixth - The Italian Steamer; Chapter the Forty-Seventh - On the Way to the End First Stage; Chapter the Forty-Eighth - On the Way to the End Second Stage; Chapter the Forty-Ninth - On the Way to the End Third Stage; Chapter the Fiftieth - The End of the Journey; Epilogue

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77652-352-0

OCLC:

809778854