Poor Miss Finch: Wilkie Collins Top Collections
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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 Money
CHAPTER 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 Right
CHAPTER 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
THE END OF THE FIRST PART
PART THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FOURTH
Nugent shows his Hand
CHAPTER 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
Lucilla's Journal
CHAPTER THE FORTY-THIRD
Lucilla's Journal, continued
CHAPTER THE FORTY-FOURTH
Lucilla's Journal, continued
CHAPTER THE FORTY-FIFTH
Lucilla's Journal, concluded
CHAPTER 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
Madame Pratolungo's Last Words
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About the author
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868).
Collins was born into the family of painter William Collins in London. He received his early education at home from his mother, after which he attended an academy and a private boarding school. He also traveled with his family to Italy and France, and learned the French and Italian languages. He served as a clerk in the firm of the tea merchants Antrobus & Co.
His first novel Iolani, or Tahiti as It Was; a Romance, was rejected by publishers in 1845. His next novel, Antonina, was published in 1850. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, and the two became close friends. A number of Collins' works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words. The two collaborated on several dramatic and fictional works, and some of Collins' plays were performed by Dickens' acting company.
Collins published his best known works in the 1860s, achieving financial stability and an international reputation. During this time he began suffering from gout and developed an addiction to opium, which he took (in the form of laudanum) for pain. He continued to publish novels and other works throughout the 1870s and '80s, but the quality of his writing declined along with his health. He died in 1889.
