{"product_id":"poor-miss-finch-wilkie-collins-9781628450910","title":"Poor Miss Finch","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoor Miss Finch: a novel\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBy Wilkie Collins \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI-Madame Pratolungo presents herself \u003cbr\u003eII-Madam Pratolungo makes a voyage on land \u003cbr\u003eIII-Poor Miss Finch \u003cbr\u003eIV-Twilight view of the man \u003cbr\u003eV-Candlelight view of the man \u003cbr\u003eVI-A cage of finches \u003cbr\u003eVII-Daylight view of the man \u003cbr\u003eVIII-The perjury of the clock \u003cbr\u003eIX-The hero of the trial \u003cbr\u003eX-First appearance of Jicks \u003cbr\u003eXI-Blind love \u003cbr\u003eXII-Mr. Finch smells money \u003cbr\u003eXIII-Second appearance of Jicks \u003cbr\u003eXIV-Discoveries at Browndown \u003cbr\u003eXV-Events at the bedside \u003cbr\u003eXVI-First result of the robbery \u003cbr\u003eXVII-The doctor's opinion \u003cbr\u003eXVIII-Family troubles \u003cbr\u003eXIX-Second result of the robbery \u003cbr\u003eXX-Good Papa again! \u003cbr\u003eXXI-Madame Pratolungo returns to Dimchurch \u003cbr\u003eXXII-The twin-brother's letter \u003cbr\u003eXXIII-He sets us all right \u003cbr\u003eXXIV-He sees Lucilla \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpt from Chapter I\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou are here invited to read the story of an event which occurred in an out-of-the-way corner of England, some years since. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe persons principally concerned in the event are: --a blind girl; two (twin) brothers; a skilled surgeon; and a curious foreign woman. I am the curious foreign woman. And I take it on myself--for-reasons which will presently appear--to tell the story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo far we understand each other. Good. I may make myself known to you as briefly as I can. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI am Madame Pratolungo--widow of that celebrated South American patriot, Doctor Pratolungo. I am French by birth. Before I married the Doctor, I went through many vicissitudes in my own country. They ended in leaving me (at an age which is of no consequence to anybody) with some experience of the world; with a cultivated musical talent on the pianoforte; and with a comfortable little fortune unexpectedly bequeathed to me by a relative of my dead dead mother (which fortune I shared with good Papa and with my younger sisters). To these qualifications I added another, the most precious of all, when I married the Doctor; namely--a strong infusion of ultra-liberal principles. \u003ci\u003eVive la Republique!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome people do one thing, and some do another, in the way of celebrating the event of their marriage. Having become man and wife, Doctor Pratolungo and I took ship to Central America--and devoted our honeymoon, in those disturbed districts, to the sacred duty of destroying tyrants. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAh! the vital air of my noble husband was the air of revolutions. From his youth upwards he had followed the glorious profession of Patriot. Wherever the people of the Southern New World rose and declared their independence--and, in my time, that fervent population did nothing else--there was the Doctor self-devoted on the altar of his adopted country. He had been fifteen times exiled, and... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWindham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wilkie Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1628450916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628450910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Windham Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Wilkie Collins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48436884242687,"sku":"9781628450910","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bc8d3054-3d50-485e-b94c-17ee6d16f706.jpg?v=1777158422","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poor-miss-finch-wilkie-collins-9781628450910","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}