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Wuthering Heights

By Emily Brontë and Emily Brontë
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Wuthering Heights is a powerful tale of love and revenge centred on the passionate and fateful bond between Catherine Earnshaw and the mysterious Heathcliff. Raised together on the Yorkshire moors, their intense relationship is tested by social constraints and personal betrayals, leading to a saga of violence and emotional torment. This classic of English literature weaves gothic elements with a profound exploration of human passion and the inescapable legacy of past wounds.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This novel appeals to readers of classic literature, gothic romances, and those interested in complex emotional narratives that explore themes of love, revenge, and social class. Ideal for mature readers who appreciate dark, intense stories with historical and regional settings.

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Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language, and a potent tale of revenge. This new edition explores its extraordinary power and unique style and narrative structure, and includes a selection of poems by Emily Brontë.

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You said I killed you - haunt me, then!

Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847.

Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through the slave-trading port of Liverpool. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff and Catherine find refuge in each other when the household falls into the hands of Catherine's dissolute older brother. Their bond deepens as they escape together from the violence and stern religion of their home to the Yorkshire moors.

But the story of Catherine and Heathcliff's attachment transforms from intimacy to strife when Catherine marries the refined Edgar Linton. The ensuing story of violence and thwarted passion is one of the most powerful tales of the gothic tradition, a literary mode from which Emily Brontë wrings all of its terrifying potential.

A regional novel with a global reach, a work of sensational effects with a startling ethical core, Wuthering Heights is both a romantic melodrama and a wrenching study of the difficulty of escaping from the legacies of violence.

This edition reproduces the authoritative Clarendon text, with revised and expanded notes and a selection from the poems of Emily Brontë.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780198834786

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 September 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Edition: 2nd Revised edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by John Bugg

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 290g

Pages: 416

Collections

Classic Fiction Emily Brontë Emily Brontë Emily Brontë Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Series: Oxford World's Classics

About the Author

John Bugg is Professor in the Department of English at Fordham University in New York City. He is the author of Five Long Winters: The Trials of British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2013) and editor of The Joseph Johnson Letterbook (Oxford UP, 2016). His essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, ELH, TLS, Romanticism, and several other journals

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