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Little Dorrit and Miss Finch

Little Dorrit and Miss Finch. VS. Francesca de Freitas LIBR 500: Foundations of Information Technology. Charles Dickens vs. Wilkie Collins. They were good friends who very often worked together. They may have finished each other's sentences. But their stories were very different:.

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Little Dorrit and Miss Finch

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  1. Little Dorrit • and • Miss Finch VS. • Francesca de Freitas LIBR 500: Foundations of Information Technology

  2. Charles Dickens vs. Wilkie Collins • They were good friends who very often worked together. • They may have finished each other's sentences. • But their stories were very different: NOVELS! • Little Dorritby Charles DickensSerialised from1855 – 1857 • Poor Miss Finchby Wilkie CollinsSerialised from1871 - 1872

  3. |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| |o| Little Dorrit By Charles Dickens, Ultra-Condensed by Vladimir Zelevinsky The Dorrits Woe are us; we are poor and miserable. (They get RICH.)‏ The Dorrits Woe are us; we are rich and miserable. (A HOUSE falls on the bad guy's HEAD.)‏ THE END

  4. That's it?!? Yep. That's it. I once answered an exam paper with a single sentence: Little Dorrit typifies the mundanity of Victorian existence by the fact that people actually waited with bated breath to read each monthly instalment. Incredibly, this did not earn me the A+ urban legends had led me to expect. C-

  5. Poor Miss Finch • Mr. Oscar Dubourg, hero: • handsome • artistic • adores his identical twin • recently acquitted of murder • Miss Lucilla Finch, heroine: • beautiful • independent means • blind • has horror of dark colours Obviously, they fall in lurrrvvvee! And, this being the 1870's, they arrange to be married.

  6. But then... • Oscar is coshed on the head in a mugging, and starts to suffer from fits. • The epilepsy medication turns him navy blue. • On rare occasions, silver nitrate was used to treat a variety of illnesses including fits and seizures. • It has an unfortunate side effect – it turns your skin permanently blue.

  7. Just so you know, I'm skipping all kinds of cute urchins, foreign widows, messages written in blood, missionaries,and teething. Lest you think the novel lacks for subplots.

  8. Back to the main plot... • Oscar tells Lucilla that his twin brother is the one who has turned blue. • Twin brother returns from America. • Twin brother falls in love with Lucilla. Enter Van Helsing, eccentric continental vampi... Enter Herr Grosse, eccentric continental oculist who says he can cure Lucilla's blindness.

  9. Can she see clearly now? • Lucilla has the operation, hurrah! She can see again! • The first person she sees is the (evil) twin brother – pretending to be her lover. • When she sees the real Oscar’s dark blue face, she can’t bear to be near him. Oscar does the decent thing and goes abroad.

  10. Wait, there's more... • Evil twin tries to rush Lucilla into a wedding. • Lucilla just doesn't get 'that loving feeling' and demurs. • The stress causes her to go blind again. • Evil twin tricks her into visiting London and attempts to force her into marriage.

  11. What happens next? Well, you can read the whole glorious tale yourself, right here:http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3632 Jeepers! If you are absolutely determined to spoil the ending, click the angel.

  12. To conclude

  13. References • Bashcorpo.dk. Paper texture #1 [Image]. In Bashcorpo. Retrieved February 3, 2008, from:http://bashcorpo.dk/textures/paper1x.jpg • Collins, W. (1872). Poor miss finch. [Etext produced in 2003]. In Project Gutenberg. Retrieved February 3, 2008, from:http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/finch10.txt • Dickens, C. (1857). Little Dorrit. [Etext produced in 1997]. In Project Gutenberg. Retrieved February 3, 2008, from:http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/ldort10.txt • GlassGiant.com. Use your picture to make a romance novel cover! In GlassGiant.com. Retrieved February 6, 2008, from:http://www.glassgiant.com/romance/ • Quinn, L. Blank cartouche. [Image]. In Liam's Pictures from Old Books. Retrieved February 3, 2008, from:http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Roam-MuseeArtistiqueIV/pages/274-cartouche-blank/ Cont.

  14. References cont. • Jippolito. Bert & ernie jack-o-lanterns!. [Photograph]. In Flickr. Retrieved February 6, 2008, from:http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacy/282206280/ • justsound_girl. “PRINTER DOT MATRIX”. [Audio recording]. In soundsnap. Retrieved February 6, 2008, from:http://www.soundsnap.com/node/12903 • sofa sound. “turning page”. [Audio recording]. In soundsnap. Retrieved February 6, 2008, from:http://www.soundsnap.com/node/19637 • Zelevinsky, V. Little dorrit. In Book-A-Minute Classics. Retrieved February 6, 2008, from:http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/dickens.dorrit.shtml

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