Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Brontė, Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853260010 ISBN 13: 9781853260018

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1992

Synopsis

Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.

The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

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Review:

"It is as if Emily Bronte could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they
transcend reality."
--Virginia Woolf"

From the Publisher:

Thoroughly edited and extensively annotated. Lavishly produced on natural, high-quality paper, and affordably priced.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1853260010
• ISBN 13: 9781853260018
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272